Re: [NGL-devel] Status of NGL & NUI

[Vincent C. <v....@ze...>]

Sritharan said:
> Dear Guys,
>
> I am developing a multiplayer client using NUI under windows. I would like to know if
> you guys have any roadmap in store for NGL/NUI. I would like to contribute to NUI/NGL
> development as well.

Some help is certainly welcome. Since you're running Windows, some testing and
maintenance on the MSVC project files (especially the VC6 ones) is one of the thing we
seek. NGL development is quite stalled this summer, for various reasons, but we're
still available for comments.

There's a kind of mini-roadmap in the TODO file. I think the only item that does not
require intimate knowledge of NGL is the rewrite of nglString on UTF-8 grounds. You
might also be interested in networking support, but you'll notice that this item as
been moved to mid-term because 1) it depends on the I/O streams reunification, 2) we
felt we had some rough corners to fix first.

We also obviously need bugfixes (doc and code), etc, you name it :). Just find an itch
to scratch, ask your questions, submit your code, and so on.

> I understand that your license for NUI and NGL is LGPL. Does that mean that I could
> use it for developing commercial apps? As long as I link my applications to NGL
> dynamically I do not have to expose my client source code?

That is right, only modifications of the libraries themselves must be redistributed
under LGPL-compatible terms, this does not affect the licensing of your program.