Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] Dynamic plug-in interface for I/O modules

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

Petr Gotthard wrote:
> To follow the "do things right" rule I think it would be great to implement a generic interface for standalone I/O modules. Both Micro$oft FSX and X-Plane have such interface. The M&S HLA users would just need to build a shared module (.dll or .so) for a particular HLA RTI and load it via the standard FlightGear plug-in interface.

Adding a plug-in interface instantly raises questions about GPL 
compatibility which have to be addressed prior to implementing such a 
thing. I believe the question did come up several times before but the 
possibility to easily violate the GPL was always a too big a hurdle to 
continue.

Erik