> But i don't accept "hey, it's legal" as blanket > protection for doing > anything--sometimes, what is legal is not moral.
I agree. > As for the generosity of free PI-reuse, and wanting > attribution That isnt why I PI'd stuff in RR. I PI'd it because we wanted to protect important setting content. If you want to see how I handle attribution, when that is importnat to me, see how we did Tome of Horrors where we wanted to credit each individual original author. So dont set up and knock down the straw man of "attribution" when that wasnt the reason behind why we did RR's license. > Because when you're forced to change the name, > you're undermining one > of the virtues of open-content development: credit > where credit is > due. That is only one of the "virtues" and nothing stops you from crediting the source. That is a lame argument. Attribution is as much the issue for the re-user as for the original author. For example, lets say there was "Clark's Cool Spell" and I PI'd the name and the content was OGC. You could rename it to Karl's Cool Spell and use the same OGC content for it. Here is where your argument falls apart. According to you, now "attribution" is ruined. No it isnt. You could easily put in your legal section: [Name of Book that has Clark's Cool Spell], section 15 info. Name of Your product, section 15 info. Note: Karl's Cool Spell is based on Open Game Content found in [Name of book that has the spell], originally written by Clark Peterson. So you can still attribute sources if YOU THE REUSER want to do so. For example, I just did a product where my author used 5 or 6 rather obscure internet OGC sources. They had bad section 15 designations. So, though I was forced to use their section 15 by the license, I also added a section called: "OGC in this Book" where I said "This book uses Open Game Content from some unique sources that deserve further designation." Then I went on to list them. Just because the license requires you to mimic the section 15 doesnt mean you cant further elaborate. Clark ===== http://www.necromancergames.com "3rd Edition Rules, 1st Edition Feel" _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
