At 04:10 AM 3/30/2001 -0500, "Martin L. Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ah, but the questions of the form, "I'm new here. Can I...?" demand the
>obligatory advice to seek counsel, just so the new folks understand this is
>serious business.
All that accomplished was to scare off a new list member who had some of the
same misconceptions many of us did about this being an open-source
movement instead of a D&D developer's network.
I think the people who need legal advice before using the OGL and D20 already
know that, because they have been publishing and dealing with intellectual
property
issues independent of OGL/D20.
As for the rest of us -- small publishers, web-only hobbyists and the like
-- if we
make a good faith effort to comply with the license, I don't think we're
risking a lot
by leaving lawyers out of the mix. (We're certainly risking less than the
companies
that are already publishing OGL/D20 material without a final draft of the
licenses --
behavior that can't be thrilling their lawyers.)
Rogers Cadenhead
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.cadenhead.org
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