"Brad Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ERROR:
>
> 1.(d)�Open Game Content� <snip> specifically excludes Product Identity.
> 7. <snip> The owner of any Product Identity used in Open Game Content
<snip>
>
> You can't use Product Identity in Open Game Content, because Product
> Identity is specifically excluded from Open Game Content.
This is a logic error, and I await the Lawyer's answer for it.
> Under this new OGL everyone is creating a hybrid work, so the works
> themselves must be treated as if they were unlicensed copyrighted documents
> (which they are) and be handled accordingly. Works can no longer be shared
> between friends, and cannot be collected in shareware or freeware archives
> of documents without the written consent of the copyright holders.
There
> will be no public domain monster books or spells, and no collaborative
works
> at all unless they are governed by a separate license.
The thought of the OGL being *limited* to game mechanics is a sobering one.
However, it's no different than the idea of the GPL being limited to
software... (Which, I believe, it isn't.)
Even in this pre-OGL world, there is a multitude of public domain and freely
distributible "netbooks." If we're exicted about the idea, the "OGL" being
not what we want shouldn't stop us--we can just take the ideas from the
simplifeied Draft OGL and run with them, if the OGL fails to live up to its
ideals.
> I wonder what Slashdot and the other press would think of this new license?
> I think they would be disappointed but unsurprised with the final results.
I think Slashdot is a shining example of a phrase I've used again and again in
Dunandralis--"Creativity by Democracy sucks." (Not that Slashdot is a bad
site--but the mob it hosts is anything but "creative.")
Nevertheless, Slashdot is not relevant to this discussion. The idea of
"openness" isn't one that needs to draw on prexisting movements... unless it
isn't a viable idea, which I believe it is.
DM
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