On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Doug Meerschaert wrote: > > The bottom line truth is that there was very little > > significant reuse of OGC. > > > I think I'll place blame for this most on a failing in the OGL -- there > was no easy way to say "my book uses Monte Cook's rules" without > actually asking Monte. Which puts you right back in the same situation > as if the OGL had never existed at all, needing to ask permission.
Except that it can be *a lot* easier to get Monte (for example)'s permission to use his name along with a set of rules that are Open than it was in the old days to get a license from TSR to produce products that were compatible with (A)D&D and marketed as such. Spike _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list Ogf-l@mail.opengamingfoundation.org http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
