Faustus von Goethe wrote:
>
> In short, I think (believe strongly, actually) that a developer that is
> making a FAN work and does not want to SELL will have a tremendously LARGER
> body of work to draw from OTHER FAN SITES that say their stuff can be "used
> but not sold" (a source that is CLOSED to OGL developers) than they EVER
> WILL from OGL material.
>
I am unconvinced that the bulk of fan material is *legally* under any
meaningful license for reuse. Absent explicit statements, you have to
assume work is copyrighted.
> However, YOU are dodging the point that the OGL developer *WILL NOT* be able
> to take advantage of the HUGE amount of fan work that will (without
> question) be available for the FAN developer.
I'll see your "My Complete Booke Of K3wl Munchkinn Stuph" and raise you
what I can grab from commercial-quality and commerically-released OGL
product -- or the D20 SRD. I'd rather rip off John Tynes than Joe
Fanboy. :)
And, given that much material in netbooks (at least several I've seen)
IS copyrighted material, illegally and unethically 'borrowed', often
without attribution, it becomes far murkier. At least anything I put
under the OGL will be forced to have my name on it.
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