OGRE 走出开始收费的第一步？

iEpsilonMeteOra

Some users may wish to obtain an alternative license to the default LGPL. Reasons might include:

* You wish to alter the OGRE core without releasing those changes publicly

* You wish to link OGRE statically with your own code, but don't want to release your own source or object code
To allow users with these issues to still consider using OGRE, from OGRE 1.4.0 onwards we are offering an alternative license, the OGRE Unrestricted License (OUL), which is available for a license fee. Thus users who have a specific need to avoid the conditions of the LGPL for their projects have the option of paying for a different license. Click here to read the full license text.

If you are interested in obtaining this alternative license, please contact licensing@ogre3d.org for more details.

Please also see the Licensing FAQ.  
Last Updated ( Monday, 16 April 2007 )  

毕竟没有完全免费的午餐 [em6]

duzhi5368

恩...相当的郁闷...

免费打工仔

我倒不怎么看，Ogre一直都是遵守LGPL的，进而对于普通商用开发来说基本上都可以闭源发布，如果制作商业游戏只需要动态链接进来就好了。
而LGPL协议对于类似oFusion这种插件开发商来说，却因为需要引入OGRE代码而开源，导致类似oFusion这种开发商用套间的公司并不多，继而很多人都认为Ogre没有好的商用开发工具（有开源的不少）。

引入OUL协议，在我看来是给商用插件开发商开绿灯，让他们可以闭源发布。收取一部分费用除了老大最近可能缺钱之外，还有就是可以不和LGPL协议重叠。（在我猜测，OUL的授权费用可能极其便宜）

Ogre以前一直遵守LGPL的，目前来看，今后相当长一段时间也会遵守。
而对于OUL协议的引入，在我看来是让OGRE更加“free”。

对于我们大多数人来说，不用理会OUL，继续LGPL就好了。

iEpsilonMeteOra

嗯，是的。原文协议中说OUL收取的是fee--小费，呵呵。