From: Behalf Of Tir Gwaith > > Under IV, B, 1. > At least five percent (1 word out of every 100) > > Make up your mind. 5% (one word in 20) or 1% (one word in 100) :)
Mark clarified it will be 1% minimum. > IV, B, 5: Open Content Availability > That section would prevent me from considering the ASTL. Why should anyone buy my > book? All the crunchy stuff is freely available after 2 months. Your system would > then almost Limit the profit to the first 60 days, but it also tells the consumers > that all they have to do is wait 2 months, and they can get it for free. Not very > good. Maybe requiring it availble to a group of publishers willing to use the > Action! license? But you aren't going to get many if they are limited to the first > 60 days, and users knowing they can get it for free after 2 months. Somehow that didn't stop the sale of D&D core rulebooks nor d20 Modern core rulebooks when Wizards provided the free SRDs based on them. According to this, only Derived Open Content. > Here is something you may not have thought through: Anything you open under OGL > as OGC, anyone can use without using your license. All they need to follow is > the OGL, and use any OGC you publish as a working base (opened under the OGL). > Are you prepared to accept that? Sounds like Mark is prepared to use the OGL provided Wizards, since he wanted to make an open rules system and initially drafted an open content license for it. www.action-system.com > The only thing you can really keep a hold of is your Trademark "Action!" and any > logo of it. They can still do derivative works of your system, they just can't > advertise it as compatible with your system. They could easily use "Compatible > with action based role playing games." and be completely legit, if I read your > Trademarks in the file correctly. Well, I doubt they can trademarked "action" (without the "!") to prevent other people using that in marketing or label. What are you suggesting? _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
