On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Morbus Iff wrote:
> Anyways, there are tons of free games floating on the net, some attributed
> to the author, some released public domain, some just passed from hand to
> hand.
>
> What are your opinions about someone collecting all these free games,
> messing with them, explaining them a bit more, adding optional rules and
> illustrations, and then rereleasing them as OGL/OGC?
Only the public domain games could be collected and released in this
manner. And I'd advise double checking to make certain the author has
made the game public domain. Just because something is given away doesn't
mean that the author doesn't retain the copyrights to the work. For
example, FUDGE is a freely available game but you'd need Steffan
O'Sullivan's permission to publish it under the OGL. And since he
considers FUDGE to essentially be open sourced already, I'm somewhat
doubtful he'd permit it's publication under OGL.
But if you can be certain about the availability of a product, I think
this would be a fine idea.
later,
alec
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