In a message dated 8/22/00 1:37:32 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > If you made a habit of publishing OGC monsters in
> > > every Guild Companion magazine and I republished all of them as a
stand-
>
> > > alone for-profit supplement with none of my own content, I don't think
> > > you would be experiencing pleasant thoughts.
> >
> > But that would be your right under the OGL as it stands. And if you made
> > money, that would be your money.
>
> And that doesn't seem wrong to you? I don't think I will ever be a good
> business man. I just don't have what it takes to (I'm trying t be polite
> here
> for Martin, so I apologize if this comes out weird.) take someone else's
> work
> like that and just repackage it. I understand that is what the OGL allows
> you
> to do, but I don't think i could sleep at night. Using it in a project is
> one
> thing, but just repackaging it like that?
>
> You aren't exactly endorsing doing it, just saying it is possible under the
> OGL, so I'll ask.
>
> Does that sit right with your ethics to do that?
Yup.
Now, if the OGC in question was mine, I'd be a little miffed. But its part of
working the process according the OGL. So it may annoy me, but I *cannot*
complain about it as that is part of the process. It makes as much sense as
getting mad because ants came to my picnic at the park. They live there, I
don't, so I should expect the chance they will want some free food. Part of
the cost of admission, so to speak.
Morally and ethically, someone who takes OGC and republishes it is in the
clear since *that is already part of the process* as created. And if he
makes a buck, then it proves that the people who originally created the OGC
should have been more aggressive in promoting it for money.
-Paul @ CFE/NSG
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