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<blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 253340" data-attributes="member: 2171">This is a bit unfair painting with too broad a brush.&nbsp; From the outset, I've been all in favor of people collecting OGC, whether in web databases or in published works (like Green Ronin's pocket grimoires, which use spells from Atlas products).&nbsp; I've spoken up in discussions on this topic on the OGL mailing list, for example.&nbsp; So long as you follow the terms of the OGL, this is perfectly OK, legal, ethical, and as far as I'm concerned, a very good thing.Mind you, I'm not interested in devoting a lot of my own scarce time to providing clean digital extractions of OGC from our products for someone else to put up on the web for free -- it's not an effective use of my time, which I'd rather spend on getting new content to market.&nbsp; However, if someone else is collecting the content (including, for instance, from PDFs containing OGC on our website), I'm not going to object, as long as they are following the licenses.&nbsp; We even chose a method of OGC delineation that would make it incredibly easy to do it right with our material.From the outset, as one of the first two publishers to use the OGL and D20STL, I've realized this was going to be inevitable.&nbsp; I'd much rather see people using the OGL legitimately in this manner than, say, scanning and sharing entire products online (which happens despite what you can do legit under the OGL).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnNephew, post: 253340, member: 2171"] This is a bit unfair painting with too broad a brush. From the outset, I've been all in favor of people collecting OGC, whether in web databases or in published works (like Green Ronin's pocket grimoires, which use spells from Atlas products). I've spoken up in discussions on this topic on the OGL mailing list, for example. So long as you follow the terms of the OGL, this is perfectly OK, legal, ethical, and as far as I'm concerned, a very good thing. Mind you, I'm not interested in devoting a lot of my own scarce time to providing clean digital extractions of OGC from our products for someone else to put up on the web for free -- it's not an effective use of my time, which I'd rather spend on getting new content to market. However, if someone else is collecting the content (including, for instance, from PDFs containing OGC on our website), I'm not going to object, as long as they are following the licenses. We even chose a method of OGC delineation that would make it incredibly easy to do it right with our material. From the outset, as one of the first two publishers to use the OGL and D20STL, I've realized this was going to be inevitable. I'd much rather see people using the OGL legitimately in this manner than, say, scanning and sharing entire products online (which happens despite what you can do legit under the OGL). [/QUOTE]

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