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Any news on a Doom 3 DK2?
Was looking forward to checking it out but not much works with DK2 yet.
If you are not redistributing anything, but are compiling from source on your own machine then there's no issue with licence violation, as the conditions of the GPL only apply to distribution.
If you are planning to redistribute the whole thing it's a problem, because the SDK needs to be statically linked. That does create a conflict with the GPL since you are creating a derivative work and according to the GPL, that entire work must have a GPL-compatible licence, which the OVR licence is not.
This means that source code distributions designed to work with (but which do not include) the 0.4 SDK are fine, but it would be a licence violation to compile the game and distribute the binary: anyone that wants the game would need to get the SDK on their own and compile everything from source because you don't have a licence to distribute them together.
If you are planning to redistribute the whole thing it's a problem, because the SDK needs to be statically linked. That does create a conflict with the GPL since you are creating a derivative work and according to the GPL, that entire work must have a GPL-compatible licence, which the OVR licence is not.
This means that source code distributions designed to work with (but which do not include) the 0.4 SDK are fine, but it would be a licence violation to compile the game and distribute the binary: anyone that wants the game would need to get the SDK on their own and compile everything from source because you don't have a licence to distribute them together.