Re: [ogf-d20-l] D20 & Shareware

[Ryan S. Dancey]

> >> I have a question about writing shareware for D20 system.
> > My advice is to not write shareware, but to write Open Source software.
>
> Quite possible it will be open source. (IMHO these two are not completely
mutually exclusive)

"Shareware" requires a payment to be made to the author.  Open Source
requires the the source be freely redistributable.  That's mutually
exclusive.

> > Yes.  The only issue you'll have to resolve is how to comply with the
terms
> > of the OGL which limit your ability to restrict redistribution of OGC.
>
> If D20 OGC and software OGC is stored as data files in some open
text-based format (most likely XML)
> and clearly marked as such - won't it do the trick?

Yes.

> Ideally, I was hoping, as D20 is growing it will come to state where there
is a community-shared
> pool of OGC data stored in open XML-based formats.

There is an active group working on this issue at the moment.

Ryan