On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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..."
If I can't sell or distribute the product with my changes it IT IS NOT
OPEN CONTENT. What part of this concept are you having trouble with?
> > 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.
You seem to think that when I say change I mean "I my campaign". I don't
mean that. I mean I have taken YOUR content, twiddled with it, then
re-released it back out. Your saying I CAN NOT do that. That's fine, I
can live with that. Don't call it "open", it not, it's at best
"collectively written".
> > 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.
Fine, the "group" creates the world. Y'all release it. If you are in
fact open there is NOTHING to stop me from taking chunks of your product,
changing it, then releasing it as another product. If you have problems
with that, you have problems with open content in general. You can't have
it both ways.
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