>From: "J. Michael Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Ah, no. Some net books are in fact illegal (or copyright/trademark
>violations, same thing).
The chief value of a Netbook over OGL is that the netbook allows FANS to use
many Trademarks and much Copyright material that the OGL expressly forbids.
They can be "unacceptable" if they reproduce large segments of copyright
material. (i.e. you can't scan the Players' Handbook and call it a
"netbook".)
> > The "thread" that was referred to was a disussion of why it makes more
>sense
> > from some perspectives to publish under the online use policy than under
>the
> > OGL if your work is FAN-based and you are not planning on selling the
> > results.
>
>This, of course, pre-disposes that the Online-use-policy is going to hang
>around. I have my doubts about that, given some of the things WoTC
>and/or Ryan has said.
A matter of opinion. IMHO the online use policy serves the same goal as the
OGL (to promote sales of WotC products) but for a different segment of the
market (FANs who want to use WotC trademarks in a not-for-sale arena).
There would (logically) be no reason for WotC to eliminate it, and the
downside could potentially be very high.
Again, a matter of opinion.
Faust
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