Appropriate licence for free tilesets?

[Lendrick]

I'm looking for some advice on how to license graphics, particularly sprites or tilesets, so that other people could use them (particularly in open source projects, but also in commercial projects as well). Please forgive my ignorance of software licensing, but I'm looking for something that would allow for the following:

* Commercial and non-commercial use
* Explicitly compatible with the GPL and LGPL
* If changes are made to the tilesets, those changes must be released under the same license.

Essentially, I'm looking for an LGPL-type license that applies to graphics. Does the LGPL work in this case, or would I need to use something else?

Thanks,
Bart

[VS]

It's a tough call, but public domain solves any problems forever…

[loonycyborg]

* Commercial and non-commercial use
* If changes are made to the tilesets, those changes must be released under the same license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

This is as close to GPL compatibility as you can get. It's impossible to be GPL compatible unless there is something equivalent to source code and you make it available along with artwork.

[Lorbi]

sorry for maybe being a bit offtopic but i'm doing a little hobbycoding and looking exactly for what u describe there ...
may u point me some hint where to get those ( or similar licensed ) graphics/tilesets? ( if they already exist ... )

[Eleazar]

sorry for maybe being a bit offtopic but i'm doing a little hobbycoding and looking exactly for what u describe there ...
may u point me some hint where to get those ( or similar licensed ) graphics/tilesets? ( if they already exist ... )

Try This site or this search.


I'm not sure how it was generated, and it is certainly not all inclusive, but this page has a diagram of how images are shared between projects.