On Sat, 20 May 2000, Ryan S. Dancey wrote:
> "2. The License
>
> This License applies to any Open Game Content that contains a notice
> indicating that the Open Game Content may only be distributed under the
> terms of this License. You must affix such a notice to any Open Game
> Content that you copy, modify or distribute. If the publication you are
> distributing includes software that contains Open Game Content, the complete
> source code of that software must be licensed using the GNU General Public
> License (GPL). Information about the GPL may be found at www.gnu.org. No
> terms may be added to or subtracted from this License except as described in
> the License itself. No other terms or conditions may be applied to any Open
> Game Content distributed using this License."
>
What is software in this context? Perl Scripts? HTML code? PostScript,
RTF or PDF docs? For that matter I have had a lawyer say that ANY computer
file, even "text files" is "software" in a legal sense. Given that the
GPL does NOT allow "non open" that means that if you publish on the web
you may not have "closed" parts. I have a little trouble with that. No,
that's not true. I have a LOT of trouble with that.
What this change means is that unless all you are doing is a dead tree
version, you might as well just go ahead and use the GPL and ignore the
OGL. Which means no "closed IP", which means no "pay per view" or what
ever web sites. Not what I had in mind.
I strongly object to this change.
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