Nope, I knew what he meant.buhatkj wrote:from my reading of this, i think you might have it backward Murphy. I think he was suggesting we put some irrlicht code into quake3, not vice versa.
But you can use Irrlicht as-is as a library. Then you modify the Quake 3 engine to use the Irrlicht library. The code you modify/write inside the Quake engine to make it use Irrlicht does become GPL, but the Irrlicht code is seperate.
The GPL is terribly written, but follow my logic: The Quake 3 engine currently uses Windows' disk IO functions, but Windows didn't need to be GPLed. Likewise, Quake 3 uses OpenGL, but not all OpenGL implementations are GPLed. Heck, I am quite certain that Quake 3 uses zlib, and zlib hasn't been GPLed.