In a message dated 09/18/2000 11:47:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Examples of why this _very_ not open:
>
> 1) Lets assume that you stuff has some things dealing with, say, rapier
> combat. Written by some one who has never held a rapier/foil/epee in his
> or her hands, but has watched a lot of Swashbuckler movies.[0] I, as a
> fencer and SCA rapier fighter, find these to be wrong and want to change
> it. Under your rules, I can't. Not open.
You can change it all you want, you just wouldn't be able to sell it or
pubically distribute it if you made those changes. Or you could have stayed
on the list and said "hey, that rapier combat info is incorrect because..."
>
> 2) I want to take the existent world and add an island chain, that being
> my standard trick when adding stuff to a published world. I don't want to
> join a VERY busy list (at least it was when I was a member). Oh, wait,
> only the select few on the list can add content. Not open.
>
You can change it all you want, but you just can't sell it or distribute it
pubically if you add those islands.
>
> Cut and dried, if I have to get approval of ANYONE to change it, it's not
> open.
>
You can change it all you want without anyone's permission, but you can't
sell it or publically distribute it if you do.
> Yes, the D20STL is not fully open either, but the OGL is[1]. What you
> want is something like the D20STL, not the OGL for you stuff.
What I want (I'm saying "I" here because I have no idea what the list thinks
at this point) is a license that will allow the community of Dunandralis to
act as a self- contained, open content, world creation project, but I also
want to support the open gaming community in some way. Open gaming is about
more than just game rules. What about world creation projects? Can't they
support open gaming without sacrificing continuity? I believe they can and I
think the system I have proposed is a step in the right direction for _group_
world creation projects that want to be more than just fanboy sites.
Maggie
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