GSL vs. no GSL Forked From: Where are all of the campaign settings?

[S'mon]

If you are going to do that, you may as well sign on to the GSL.

All kinds of terrible things happen to your rights if you use the GSL.

 

[pawsplay]

BTW you can legally include monsters that WotC says are 'Product Identity'- PI is not a legal term. Eg you can have a scenario which says "3 Beholders live in this cave". You can have "3 Hobbits live in this cave", for that matter, although it would annoy Tolkien enterprises, who seek to claim a monopoly on the word.

I think they only claim it in regards to short, human-like creatures that walk around in bare feet and are known for their nimbleness. The word itself, IIRC, just means some kind of spirit or goblin.

 

[pawsplay]

If you are going to do that, you may as well sign on to the GSL.

With all due respect, that's like saying, "If you are a billionaire and you are going to go ahead and marry a coke-snorting exotic dancer, you might as well not sign a pre-nuptial."

 

[Jack99]

All kinds of terrible things happen to your rights if you use the GSL.

Can happen would perhaps be more precise, wouldn't you say?

With all due respect, that's like saying, "If you are a billionaire and you are going to go ahead and marry a coke-snorting exotic dancer, you might as well not sign a pre-nuptial."

Wait. I am confused. Are you calling Goodman Games a coke-snorting stripper? Or is it WotC which is the stripper in this story? I am confused.

 

[S'mon]

Can happen would perhaps be more precise, wouldn't you say?

No, your legal rights are affected as soon as you use the GSL. It's automatic.

 

[Jack99]

No, your legal rights are affected as soon as you use the GSL. It's automatic.

My English might suck, but last I checked, "happen terrible things" /= "affected".

Could you explain what terrible things automatically happen when you sign the GSL?

 

[Treebore]

If you are going to do that, you may as well sign on to the GSL. For adventure writing, that is one of the GSL bugaboos.

I will also advise folks to talk to a lawyer before taking advice from this thread, my own included and especially Treebore's advice.

Uh huh. Definitely don't take mine, I haven't been researching this for months, talking to half dozen IP experts, including two of the leading legal minds on IP law in the US. Always use your own lawyers advice over anyone on the internet. Its the wisest thing to do. You never know when I misremember what I read or was told. So definitely play it safe. Talk to your own IP lawyer.

 

[Treebore]

*double post*

 

[S'mon]

My English might suck, but last I checked, "happen terrible things" /= "affected".

Could you explain what terrible things automatically happen when you sign the GSL?

No, actually, I can't be bothered talking to you anymore.

 

[Jack99]

No, actually, I can't be bothered talking to you anymore.

Awesome. If it stops the gross exaggerations, then I can definitely live with it.

Look, I think the GSL sucks too, and I wish it was different. But let's not go overboard here. Plenty of people who work with licenses have said multiple times on these boards that the license is fairly standard. It's not like you have to give your first newborn babies to WotC. Also, plenty of members of this community have adopted the GSL for their work. Making it out to be extremely bad and a terrible thing to adopt, is frankly an insult to those people's intelligence.