>In a message dated 09/08/2000 9:18:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > It will always restrict you A LOT
> > more than the online use policy, and it will be a major hassle to
>convert
>-
> > so as long as the "online use" is still alive, WHY would anyone
>convert.
>
>
>::Crawls out from under the table with food tray over head for protection::
>
>Well, here's my reason:
>
>Dunandralis. We _could_ stick it on the web without the OGL, but that
>leaves
>us without the future option to have our work sold or sell the work
>ourselves.
No. It doesn't. When you publish something electronically you emphatically
DO NOT give up the copyright. If you use the online policy you can change
the status of your work to "closed" at any time. That IS NOT the case with
the OGL. Once you open it, it is OPOEN FOREVER.
>We don't _plan_ to do that, but almost every member of the
>project who voiced an opinion stated that they wanted the freedom and
>control
>over their work that the OGL provided.
The OGL is antithetical to freedom and control. Once you use it, you have
LOST control.
> This way, I could contibute a 100%
>open module to Dunandralis, but another member could decide to keep his
>favorite NPC as PI and close off certain parts of his submission. This is
>not "official", however, because we are yet to decide what to do with all
>of
>this. But is is a reason for why Dunandralis is going to be a function of
>the OGL and not the Online Policy.
You can do this with the online policy just by stating at the beginning of
your work that your work is free to use in playing a game, but not to copy
or modify.
But if you are writing ORIGNAL stuff that will not be based on other folks'
contributions, that you will give away free ANYWAY, why are you considering
EITHER policy?
You can write whatever you want at the beginning of your work and "open" or
"close" any portion of it, just by saying this "is" or "is not" in the
public domain.
Actually Dundralis is a bad example as my original comment referred to
WotC/D&D Fan-based material ... Dundralis is a different concept.
Faust
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