Other: Make Lib like BGE that is LGPL? about upbge HOT 7 CLOSED

Ok I looked at it, and it looks like no matter how it is coded, it would be a derivative.

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@BluePrintRandom : Indeed the GPL is a big issue. All things using a code in GPL is GPL, it's why they created the LGPL. So since the BGE use blender (and it will be forever) it will be in GPL.

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Ok , I have been talking to Ton, Lawyers, etc,

it is 'import bge' that causes a project to be infected with gpl,

Loading a game engine project does not infect the game with GPL ->
importing a GPL module does,

I have asked Ton to help me get a list of sources for the bge module and
mathutils module, to get their licences only, converted to LGPL. It is a
massive undertaking, but will remove a large barrier to any commercial use
of the bge.

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@BluePrintRandom https://github.com/BluePrintRandom : Indeed the GPL is
a big issue. All things using a code in GPL is GPL, it's why they created
the LGPL. So since the BGE use blender (and it will be forever) it will be
in GPL.

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Sounds good, but why LGPL? Why not BSD or MIT?

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I don't see how can we make the UPBGE API under LGPL.

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OK!

I think I have a work around, when a blend is opened by blender or by standalone player, build a scene list, and a object list per scene, and store it as a database , and any added objects/removed objects update this data base, also which controller calls a python script needs to be stored in some sort of table as well (per instance of the script)

so the user can call a alternative to getCurrentController and scene.objects,
and avoid calling import BGE at all,

for mathutils / Vector -> you can mutate a object.worldPosition.copy() to build a vector,
and never invoke GPL !

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the alternative getCurrentController will use the same C/C++ internal source which are in GPL too.
There's no more activity on this topic since a long time, i close it, fell free to reopen if any news.

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