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<blockquote data-quote="oknazevad" data-source="post: 7950995" data-attributes="member: 6778182"><p>Yeah, looking at the license and the SRD content this is essentially useless. If you use any of it you <strong><em>have to </em></strong>slap that logo on your book, "prominently", regardless of how little you actually use. And let's be frank, between the paucity of content in the SRD and the plethora of restrictions in the prohibited content list, there's so little anyone can or would use. Probably the only aspect that is actually distinctly useful is getting the classic resistance table actually under some sort of license (though as a purely mechanical aspect it's probably not copyright eligible in the first place). But again, if you use one thing then you can't use anything similar to the stuff on the prohibited content list and have to put their logo on both the front and back of the book.</p><p></p><p>And it's not like there aren't already truly open licensed d100 games out there. Both Mongoose editions of <em>RuneQuest </em>(the second under its post-license name of <em>Legend</em>) and<em> OpenQuest</em> (which used the first Mongoose edition's SRD to cover its legal basis) are already out there under the full, true OGL. Those give, without burdensome restrictions and glaring omissions, more than sufficient material to make a d100 game that is truly open. </p><p></p><p>So the real question is "why bother?" Between a useless SRD and the least open open license I've ever seen, what do they hope to accomplish? It's truly too little (content), and too late (there's already suitable functionally equivalent alternatives).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oknazevad, post: 7950995, member: 6778182"] Yeah, looking at the license and the SRD content this is essentially useless. If you use any of it you [B][I]have to [/I][/B]slap that logo on your book, "prominently", regardless of how little you actually use. And let's be frank, between the paucity of content in the SRD and the plethora of restrictions in the prohibited content list, there's so little anyone can or would use. Probably the only aspect that is actually distinctly useful is getting the classic resistance table actually under some sort of license (though as a purely mechanical aspect it's probably not copyright eligible in the first place). But again, if you use one thing then you can't use anything similar to the stuff on the prohibited content list and have to put their logo on both the front and back of the book. And it's not like there aren't already truly open licensed d100 games out there. Both Mongoose editions of [I]RuneQuest [/I](the second under its post-license name of [I]Legend[/I]) and[I] OpenQuest[/I] (which used the first Mongoose edition's SRD to cover its legal basis) are already out there under the full, true OGL. Those give, without burdensome restrictions and glaring omissions, more than sufficient material to make a d100 game that is truly open. So the real question is "why bother?" Between a useless SRD and the least open open license I've ever seen, what do they hope to accomplish? It's truly too little (content), and too late (there's already suitable functionally equivalent alternatives). [/QUOTE]
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