On 17 Sep 00, Faustus scribbled a note about Re: [Open_Gaming] Final Text of App:
> In FACT >everything< about the foundation LOOKS as though it has been
> intentionaly set up to encourage the ERROR on the part of the casual
> reader that the foundation sponsors and controls the license. It is only
> if you read the license itself and spend time considering its
> ramifications that you find that this is in fact not the case.
>
> FURTHER, the foundation has been MISREPRESENTED in more than one published
> article as the source of the license, and the FOUNDATION has declined on
> more than one occasion to correct this obvious (and important) error.
>
> It is this misconception - and the associated notion that the license was
> written BY THE FOUNDATION to serve the needs of all gamers - that I am
> protesting.
If you consider that every person on this list is a member of the
"FOUNDATION", then the license HAS been written by the OGF. I
cannot recall tha number of times that Ryan has posted the license
for the people on this list to review the wording and hash out any
potential problems with it. All of us working together have effectively
written it together.
The fact that Ryan has then taken our efforts to WOTC's lawyers to
make sure that what we worked together for is legally correct, has
very little bearing on that fact the we wrote the original text together.
Now, the license needs to be copyrighted, so that nobody can
come along and make changes to the OGL that nullify/change
portions of the OGL illegally. Since the d20 SRD is based on
WOTC's main rpg product, I find no problems with the license being
copyrighted to them.
Once the OGF is incorporated into an official entity, then I would
hope that WOTC would transfer copyright to the OGF, but that is
not really a big deal to me either way.
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