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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 872488" data-attributes="member: 813">Business Ethics? You might want to look into that yourself. There is nothing unethical about follow the SPIRIT of a license agreement. Grabbing and reusing OGC is the spirit of the OGL. Asking permission is just being polite.Stole? If I stole it from you, then you no longer have it. Ah, but you do still have it. So I haven't stolen anything. Nor have I pirated it. And since the OGL is a voluntary contract, in point of fact, by making that spell OGC you are in fact inviting people to reuse it.So when you published Crimson Contracts you contacted Wizards of the Coast first and told them you were going to use their OGC? ReallY?Asking is not by definition a hassle. It is however a roadblock to smooth development. By not getting involved with PId names in the first place, that is one less thing to think about when putting a book to bed.Yes it is. There are only two other pieces of PI in my entire Joe's Book of Enchantment. They are "Joe's Book of Enchantment" and "Throwing Dice Games". I did not PI Saera the elven enchanter, Doral the charlatan, the Circus of the crescent moon run by Mazir Al'Rahaji, the bard/reveler and Lysath Tourant, headlined by Tara the gnome rogue, etc. etc. Why? Because no matter what they mean to me, if I really expected to use them again in a book or something, I could rename them and trademark the new names. As it stands now, I would be utterly flattered to find any of those characters in someone else's works. At some point you have to ask who are you protecting those characters from? Since I have no plans for them, I'm happy to let them go.I see no added value in expanding my PI statement to contain your PI when I can keep it as simple as company name and product name. YMMV.You get credit in section 15. The OGC prohibits further credit without additional licensing.So? Just because someone else used NahaJawen in a product it stops you from doing so in the future?Let me take this back to the beginning. I want your spell. I don't give a blankityblank about your PI name. You see the PI name on a spell and attach great meaning to it. I see a spell with a cool effect that has a name I cannot use. Perhaps if you released the spell with an OGC name as well as the PI name?</blockquote>

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