Interesting, here's my 2-cents. Goodnight.
Bob
B-)
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From: Faustus von Goethe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>Unless you put the document out yourself it is *much* easier for someone
who
wants to use your content to scan and OCR your product, then delete the
closed parts than it is to sit down and write a summary.
>From our perspective, we ALREADY have begun collecting monsters, feats,
skills, and rules and entering them into our archives for our own use.
These take the form (e.g. for a Monster):
<MONSTER>
OGC TITLE: {name of original publication}
OGC COPYRIGHT DATE: {date of original copyright}
OGC CR HOLDER NAME: {name of original producer/copyright holder here}
TYPE: Monster
NAME: {actual name if it is "open", or our "made up" name if not}
-----
{insert standard D20 stats block here}
-----
{insert any open text/descriptions here}
-----
{insert our own notes here}
-----
</MONSTER>
Since we will be using this ourselves in our products, we intend to also
post it online to help out any open game developers out there who also might
want to use it.
Our presentation of these items will conform in every way to the Open game
License.
This is what "open" is all about, guys.<<<<<
Don't forget the section crediting the creator. As per the requirements of
the OGL You _must_ acknowledge all contributions in the copyright section.
>>>>Faust
PS: One ramification of this is that if people take the content off of our
site and refer to the monster by OUR name, then WE will be listed as partial
contributor of that content. This is ONE good argument for why contributors
should probably just open the names of their monsters and spells, and don't
try to keep them as proprietary.<<<<
Actually this is a perfect reason _not_ to release them. It will soon be too
difficult to list all contributions in the copyright. IE: Game stats for
"Really Big Bug" copyright Sword and Sorcery Studios, name "Really Big Bug"
copyright Faust van Goethe. It starts to get complicated. Also if they
_don't_ properly comply then they forfeit all right to use them.
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