From: "John Nephew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Should we (a) go without your superb web-published rules set, because
>it would be unethical to take and not give in return, and either gloss
>over it or paste together our own rules; or (b) include your rules set,
>since by putting it in our adventure we'll expose it to a lot of people
>who might not ever have found it on the web, and when they *do* find
>your page they might remember "Oh yeah, that was used in Adventure X
>and I saw this guy's name on the copyright page" -- and because your
>finely honed, long-tested rules would genuinely improve the quality of
>our module?
Please, take any Open Content I have released and use it; that's what it's
there for. Presumably you wouldn't want to use the material unless it was
of high quality, so having the work spread is a Good Thing. What do I care
if you make a buck off the work? If I thought you shouldn't make money off
the work I would release it under my own non-commercial "open" license
rather than the OGL.
In the viral analogy, the "leeches" are non-symptomatic carriers. They act
as transmission vectors for the Open Content though they provide no
additional Open Content of their own. A virus can only be helped by
increasing the transmission vectors.
Walter
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