Re: [Ogf-l] contracts and the OGL

[Doug Meerschaert]

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>Yeah but that's the problem.  The OGL will give affiliates of BWR more rights 
>than they are supposed to have. For example, I am a both a writer and a board 
>member for BWR.  If we design an RPG then I may not take that work and go 
>start a for profit company with it.  However, if it later becomes open 
>content, then I could.  That would be really bad.  I would very much love to 
>be wrong about the OGL providing this kind of loophole in the structure of 
>the NPO, but I think it does, so I have to correct it somehow.  
>
What would happen if you made it public domain?  They're probably a lot 
more case-law regarding that than there is "copyleft," and from where I 
sit the effect on MA's 501(c) laws would be simliar.


DM

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