On Tue, 23 May 2000, Kal Lin wrote:
> As a side note, how would people feel about a project to
> create software for open gaming that would release all code
> under something like GPL with the addition that any content
> you use with the code has to be released under the OGL?
>
> Basically, you can have the code if you contribute your content
> to the community.
What I am planing on doing is a set of "generic" cgi-bin executables (most
likely written in C or Perl) that will reflect the OGL rules, and that
will be
GPLed, that eat 2 sets of files, one that will be released with the exec
that is GPL and 100% based on the OGL stuff, plus a set of "private" files
that have "closed" IP in them (artwork, fluff text about
monsters/items/locations etc), but are not 100% required to make the thing
work. Given that the only lawyer's statement I have heard about what is
or isn't "software" tends to scare me, I _much_ perfer the "must release
human readable format OGL material" than the "must use the GPL" aspect,
because _parts_ of the package I would really like to be closed IP, which
is tricky under the GPL. While I can release a product that works that
is 100% GPL, I don't want _all_ data file to be foreced into being GPL.
We went over this this last weekend, and I may still be jumping at boggy
men, but the land sharks said that "all computer files are software" thing
_again_ today, which makes me think that something funny is being smoked
in the legal staff room, but I could be wrong, as IAMAL and they are.
Clueless, luser, "can't find the on switch on a computer with 2 hands, a
ground guide and a strip map", lawyers, but lawyers never the less.
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