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<blockquote data-quote="resistor" data-source="post: 4037100" data-attributes="member: 9142">You'll note that the OGL places more restrictions on the use of the content they're releasing.&nbsp; For example, a clear designation that it came from OGL sources.&nbsp; Additionally, they give themselves the liberty of picking and choosing not just which publications, but which parts of which publications, they want to be open, and which parts they want to remain closed.&nbsp; For example, certain key elements (the XP table) are not open content.&nbsp; In addition, I'm pretty sure they don't agree to indemnify users of the open content.Such a license with some restrictions on their use of content is precisely what I've been calling for.In fact, if the terms of use specified that any material posted on the Gleemax falls under the terms of the OGL and that, unless clearly delineated at the beginning of a post, the entirety of the post is considered open.A similar effect could be achieved by placing it under the one of the many <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/license/" target="_blank">Creative Commons</a> licenses.&nbsp; In fact, you could say that all posts must be released under a CC license, and have the default be one of the permissive ones (that allows commercial use without attribution), but provide a drop-down in the posting box to select one of the others.&nbsp; Most people won't change it, so the developers could still meaningfully participate in the boards by just filtering out posts not under the default license.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="resistor, post: 4037100, member: 9142"] You'll note that the OGL places more restrictions on the use of the content they're releasing. For example, a clear designation that it came from OGL sources. Additionally, they give themselves the liberty of picking and choosing not just which publications, but which parts of which publications, they want to be open, and which parts they want to remain closed. For example, certain key elements (the XP table) are not open content. In addition, I'm pretty sure they don't agree to indemnify users of the open content. Such a license with some restrictions on their use of content is [I]precisely[/I] what I've been calling for. In fact, if the terms of use specified that any material posted on the Gleemax falls under the terms of the OGL and that, unless clearly delineated at the beginning of a post, the entirety of the post is considered open. A similar effect could be achieved by placing it under the one of the many [URL=http://creativecommons.org/about/license/]Creative Commons[/URL] licenses. In fact, you could say that all posts must be released under a CC license, and have the default be one of the permissive ones (that allows commercial use without attribution), but provide a drop-down in the posting box to select one of the others. Most people won't change it, so the developers could still meaningfully participate in the boards by just filtering out posts not under the default license. [/QUOTE]

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