"Daniel Abraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Out of everyone on this list, please respond to the following questions:
> 
> 1) If you wrote a module, would you place it on the open license agreement?

Heck yeah; unless it was sold to someone else, I'd place it on D20 and let it
fly.  (Why NOT?)

> 2) How do you think such an agreement affects a new writer breaking into the

> field?

I think it makes it more attractive.

> 3) Do you think experienced writers will use the open license agreement?

I hope so.

> 4) What do you predict will happen to professional writers who choose not to

> use the OGL?

They'll wait, see if it take off, and THEN use it.  Or, they'll die.  Or,
they'll have to get off their complacant seats and produce some killer
prodcuts.

> 5) Who benefits the most from the OGL, and why?

Hmm... gamers.  It's a nice group that covers everyone from me and the rest of
the actual players to the ancients (Gygax...) and the execs (Ryan, the White
Wolf folks, etc.)

 
> To state my biases, I believe that the OGL does not, as yet, hold water in 
> the legal sense and contains a logical structure designed to provide WotC 
> with the equivalent of a slushpile with no need to pay the authors for more

> than one copy rather than a royalty.  With that under consideration, feel 
> free to remove any slant from the questions.

Hmm... that's pretty harsh Daniel.  I don't think the negative PR that WotC
would run into would outweigh the profit from any single product... or any
dozen products.


DM


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