Hello,
Faustus von Goethe wrote:
> >4. The online policy can be revoked at any time.
>
> Not valid, for reasons discussed earlier.
I believe one of Ryan's goals is to replace the current online policy with a
combination of the OGL/D20/ and a future setting license that hasn't started
development yet. Or at least hasn't been shown to me yet. :-) The change
probably will happen.
> Sure the "license" could go away,
I think Ryan plans for it to. I think it is less of a could and more of a
certainty.
> but the choice to "convert now" or "convert later" is a zero sum decision -
> it will cost the same later as it will now, and the benefits of the "online
> use policy" for free distribution so outweigh the OGL that a fan would have
> to have that aforementioned "fetish for order" to want to try.
Not really, if they start releasing under the OGL now, and slowly convert as
they have time, then when it happens they won't have to shut down there site for
remodeling. Plus they won't have to do it all at once.
> >5. The OGL establishes a common framework for using the work of others
> >and allowing your own work to be shared.
>
> Not valid.
I believe it is. I don't go looking around on the D&D fan sites for ideas to
use, because 99% of the time, I will have to get permission to use there stuff
as open content. I do however go looking on OGL sites for ideas as they have OGC
that I can use. Using the OGL does put you in a different ballpark than just
making your stuff public domain.
I also like the thrill of knowing that my work is good enough for someone else
to use. And with the OGL I will always get credit when someone else uses my
work, it is part of the OGL. If I just make my stuff open without it, then my
name doesn't have to appear in the other work.
> >6. Using the OGL capitalizes on the high interest in open source
> >gaming.
>
> Uhhh. Do you know something I don't know? Considering the number of fan
> sites, I would say that the interest in FAN MATERIAL is (literally hundreds
> of times) greater than the interest in open source material.
<shrug> I don't know, I'm not a publisher, just a fan. I have absolutely no
interest in D&D fan material. Although i suppose that makes me a D20 fan, not a
D&D fan. :-)
Have Fun,
Darren
--
...at the Game District
Expanding the possibilities of the D20 System
http://gamedistrict.com/
-------------
For more information, please link to www.opengamingfoundation.org
