Don't worry about the licence. The ol' C code is published under the GNU
licence. As far as I understood from your mail you did not use that code
either. So you can upload your project. As far as authority over
RoboWar goes, if you want it you got it! Cool project BTW.

rk_aas wrote:

> I have remade RoboWar entirely in C++ (not reviewing the VB source
> code). However, I do not of how copyright issues apply.
> How should i progress in order to publish the source?
> My first idea was that that it should be possible just to upload it
> since RW is open source, but it is distributed under some license (I
> guess), a topic which I know near to nothing about.
> I guess that this situation is different from saying that one has
> updated the code, since this is an entirely new project.
>
> - I would be very thankful if I could get an explanation from the
> 'authority' of RW (if it exists), without references to multi-megabyte
> textfiles of copyright laws, explaining how I should do to publish the
> code.
>
> The code was originally working but quite unprofessional, so I have
> started to make it look more professional. However, 6 months have
> progressed since I started and perhaps I will be willing to publish
> the source soon in order to allow others to edit.
> Most of all, I would like to keep the project to my own site,
> http://www.yuide.se. <http://www.yuide.se.> If there are too many
> complications, I will
> probably give the whole thing up or possibly try to use the parts of
> the code without influences from RW in making some other game.
> // Erik Aas
>
>