> Margaret Vining
>
> Why can't we just work to make the OGL serve everyone's needs. You all
> are assuming you need > these new things based on some really lame
evidence.
> Why aren't you all willing to give the OGL a fair try first? This is what
I
> don't understand.
I have to second this. If an author REALLY doesn't care about making money,
why would they care if somebody else makes money from their work? An all
OGL work is always free to anyone who wants it, so if somebody else makes
money from your work by building on it they aren't taking anything away from
you when they do it! It sounds to me like the real motivation is that some
fans would like to make money if they could, but they can't, but they still
want to create and are now forced to do it in such a way that other people
can make money from their work. To that I say *THE OGL ISN'T FOR YOU - go
back to doing it the old way and relying on 'fair-use' and staying under the
trademark infringement radar.
I think a not-for-profit OGL is doomed to failure for the simple reason that
it won't have the SRD in it. Who wants to start from scratch when Wizards
has already handed us the keys to the city under the OGL? And you can make
money with it to boot! Good for the fan, good for the publisher, good for
the end-user gamer.
The topic was interesting when it dealt with a free trademark to establish a
new network that overlapped heavily on the old one. A new
separate-and-different license simply isn't useful enough to bother with.
-Brad
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