GSL CopyRight Theivery Clause

[Umbran]

This seems to me the fantasy of a man who believes in free-market capitalism with a pure, irrational faith.

Address the point, not the speaker, please.

 

[jdrakeh]

No, it just means if you want to convert OGC that you don't own, you need explicit permission of the original owner. If your product pulls OGC from many sources and those sources pull OGC from still more sources, you end up with a Gordian knot of permissions to obtain, but that is not WotC's problem. It's your problem.

This is 100% truth. IMO, the GSL seems to have been designed to make third-party publishers work a bit harder than they had to in order to release under the OGL or d20 STL. I assume that this is intentional, as part of an effort to discourage the dozens of 'fly by night' outfits that flooded the market with absolute crap in the early days of D&D 3x.

 

[Scribble]

This is 100% truth. IMO, the GSL seems to have been designed to make third-party publishers work a bit harder than they had to in order to release under the OGL or d20 STL. I assume that this is intentional, as part of an effort to discourage the dozens of 'fly by night' outfits that flooded the market with absolute crap in the early days of D&D 3x.

I agree. I also think once the fansite stuff is out, it'll show their "rules" are much more lax when it coems to not making money...

When people pay money for stuff, and get crud, their image of the game as a whole is effected in a negative way. Doesn't matter if WoTC made it or not.

 

[jdrakeh]

I agree. I also think once the fansite stuff is out, it'll show their "rules" are much more lax when it coems to not making money...

Free-press material is already exempt from the mandatory October market entry date imposed on commercial material, so I suspect that you are correct.

When people pay money for stuff, and get crud, their image of the game as a whole is effected in a negative way. Doesn't matter if WoTC made it or not.

True that. I can't count the number of FLGS owners who got burned by the rounds of poorly conceived third-party commerical products in the early days of 3x and, thus, were very unlikely to order or stock third-party products in later years.