>From: "J. Michael Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > But anyone can use it, for free. And anyone can sell or publically
> > distribute it as long as they don't alter it. AND anyone can contirbute
>to
> > it as long as they do it through the list. How is that not open?
>
>Examples of why this _very_ not open:
I'll point out that we're doing *MORE* than the standard OGL / d20 concept
is. All our game rules are "open", and we use "open" rules. Our Product
Identity, which would be *VERY CLOSED* if we were a for-sale organization,
is "free-to-distribute" with an open membership to contribute.
We might even split the Product Identity a little further, and leave it to
our individual contributors (and me) to split the PI / OGC line. (Thus, one
guy's city could be all closed, and another guy's town could be all open,
save for a few names.)
>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.
Those are rules. *RULES* would be open. What Dunandralis would have is
"The three musketeers" which, however inaccurate you think they are, you
really can't change. (Unless some part of that is open... but *game rules*
wouldn't be touched.)
>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.
There's no formal requirement to be on the list to contribute. You could
just e-mail Maggie or myself, and we'd act as go-betweens with the list.
>Cut and dried, if I have to get approval of ANYONE to change it, it's not
>open.
>
>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.
Hmm... and yet, the D20STL is hosted on the OGL web site...
DM
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