On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
>
> How pleasant is the environment for creators and publishers of OGC, if
> the standard of behavior is "use as much as you like, and feel free to
> contribute none"? If you made a habit of publishing OGC monsters in
> every Guild Companion magazine and I republished all of them as a stand-
> alone for-profit supplement with none of my own content, I don't think
> you would be experiencing pleasant thoughts.
If the material was published as Open Game Content, and you republished it
adhering to all the provisions of the OGL, then we would have neither
cause nor desire to object. If we publish material explicitly marked as
Open Game Content, then the original creators are deliberately and
voluntarily donating it to the community. They still receive the credit
for having created it.
Similarly if we choose to produce material only using the D20 content
provided by Wizards of the Coast, they are still credited with the
creation of that material and we're still helping their aim of selling
more PHBs.
Regards,
Nicholas HM Caldwell
General Editor for The Guild Companion
http://www.guildcompanion.com/
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