Hi,
A reply to Doug Meerschaert's proposed "Free20" permission
(i.e. what the "Free20" mark would indicate). These are basically:
1) Comply with OGL
2) Legally use the d20 trademark
3) 100% Open Game Content, plus any Product Identity you have must give
permission for other Free20 users to use it, except for identifying
names (of NPC's or the world).
4) Not hold the owner of OGL works which you derive from liable for
legal trouble you get into.
I personally would disagree with #2. I don't see why the
d20 trademark should be neccessary, and removing it would mean that
people could do things like release alternate character creation
systems as "Free20". Also, I'm not too sure about the "identifying
names" bit. There should be room to have a distinctive mark
for, say, the original makers of a world. However, if all the
names in the package are PI, then the world really isn't "open" in
my opinion. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't seem to go
with the "Free20" concept.
- John
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