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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scharlata" data-source="post: 1442532" data-attributes="member: 4806">I don't wanna be a straw to break a camel's neck, but isn't it contraproductive to argue in public all in vain about a topic that a legitimate and registered user on a messageboard can't discuss correctly because of a lack of written material. This board or most others do not exist for the purpose of clandestinely colportage a hidden agenda to write non-OGL material in little bits to puzzle them together someday so that the ones to not own a copy of the original published material may save 25,- Euro.It is, IMHO, a commonplace that "research" is a top-secret thing, but the "discussion" of "research" after its publication is not. If it is only the retyping of the wording of the original material that violates the OGL, than we will be reading "reworded" texts "rewritten" for better understanding of the publically discussed topics. And we know that happens around the world. This inclination towards the methods of discussion of non-OGL is mostly seen in the States, not in other countries - as mentioned above. The misunderstandings and irritations of understanding licences properly are enforced by a great amount of incertainty about regulations and copyrights.But what about the mention of words in the "right order" from non-OGL material. Do I have to "reparaphrase" texts so to not violate the OGL? What kind of discussion may arise, if we must communicate in another terminology or nomenclature to be "within the laws" of the OGL. What will be, if someone decides to use translated non-OGL material, i.e. in Latin - as the Old School *pardon the pun* of scientists and sages did?Maybe there is room for discussion of topics -- OGL and non-OGL alike -- that everybody knows they are not violating the OGL for its own sake. Maybe there are people sophisticated and well-learned enough to see and read the difference between retyping non-OGL material and a normal discussion between interested players and DM's alike.So let me assure all who have seen the transgression, that I do not want to be the one to "break a poor animal's back".Kind regards</blockquote>

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