On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Faustus von Goethe wrote:
>
> If this concerns you, then you should DEFINITELY release a reference
> document for any content you deem to be open.
We doubtless will.
> >If large chunks of one of our products did
> >turn out to be OGC, we probably would have concerns about it being too
> >easily available.
>
> Hey, I have a scanner with a doc feeder. Put out a module, it will likely
> take me 20 minutes to have the "open" parts up on the web. (Add an hour for
> driving time from the store, I guess.)
Um. The Guild Companion is not a paper-based publisher. We're strictly
electronic, which means that we already worry about bad apples taking our
products and distributing them wholesale round the net. We don't want to
make the lives of those bad apples any easier.
(And no, I'm not in any way suggesting that you are a bad apple. The
people I have in mind OCR complete printed books with the intention of
putting them on a web-server in China. Their justification is that the
books are out-of-print ...)
And of course, there's the semi-altruistic reason that if budding OGL
authors come to us to request exhaustive details, we can try to recruit
them to write for us!
Regards,
Nicholas HM Caldwell
General Editor for The Guild Companion
http://www.guildcompanion.com/
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