GPLv2 license question

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jetman
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Hi! I have a question for the developers of Hedgewars about the GPLv2 license. If I want to make my own game based on your source code, with graphic and audio content made from scratch, should I use GPLv2 license for the content and publish the content together with the source code of my future game? Or GPLv2 license doesn't cover the content that have been made from scratch, and I cannot publish its source files?
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My understanding is you can license the data files as you like. It is your duty to distribute source code on request if you distribute binaries, although, admittedly, people are pretty relaxed about that nowdays. The GPLv2 mail requirement is rather obsolete and hardly anyone demands it, apart from people who want to be annoying. Linking to the source online should be enough. If you make any modifications to the source you'd have to provide those as well.
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Thank you!
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Actually the contents are licensed under the GNU FDL which is very similar to CC-BY-SA distribution. You can choose any new (open source) licenses for any new code that you are going to write but you have to leave the GPLv2 parts as they are. By the way, we would welcome any contribution that you would like to make ^^
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[quote=Koda] Actually the contents are licensed under the GNU FDL which is very similar to CC-BY-SA distribution. [/quote] Hm. I thought he was proposing using a new Data dir created by him. So I figured the license on art wouldn't come into play.
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