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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 1489495" data-attributes="member: 6616">Fair or unfairI don't know what I think is "fair". I honestly don't know.Of course it is fair to respect the authors and publishers and their opinion.But there is also the fact that declaring something OGC is a potential selling point for a book. So let's say a customer picks up Skull&Bones and reads that 90% is OGC, he thinks "wow, that's so cool, I've read the OGL and that means I can get even more use out of these rules. I'll buy the book and use the OGC to create something cool in return."So liberally declaring OGC is a potential selling point. It is something that is offered to me as a customer. "Buy this book, get all these cool toys, and 90% is OGC!"Is it then "fair" to turn around and say to a customer that "yes, 90% is OGC but I strongly feel that you should not use it according to the OGL. I would like you to use it according to my wishes, which you may or may not have been privy to. Thanks for asking."Companies enhance the value of their books by declaring OGC. This potentially draws more customers. So the companies benefit from declaring OGC. When are we as customers to benefit from this?Not at all? Is that fair? If OGC is only meant to be used by other publishers, then I think the "movement" is heading in the wrong direction, and I think another license would be in order to cover this use. So that we as customers get clear info on what OGC means.But then there's the case of whether or not liberal declaration of OGC enhances sales. I would like to think that to be true, but I don't. So GRR wanting to hold onto their packaging of their OGC as the only source is understandable. At least if sales would be hurt by people republishing the OGC of a whole book.I don't know. GRR probably knows more about this than I do. They sure make great books. But it seems that even WotC don't really know what's going to happen to sales if a total republishing of OGC content is done for free, at least if I remember some of Andy Collins' comments before the release correctly.UA is a trial. And I think it is fair of WotC or individuals attached to WotC to let that trial run its course without trying to influence the outcome. How else will we know?And what is fair? And to whom? WotC? The customers? Other publishers? The OGL movement?I don't know. I honestly don't know. I would like to see a huge repositry of OGC collected in one place. All OGC ever published. Would this break the companies producing OGC? I hope not, because if it does, someting is very wrong with the building blocks that this OGL-thing is resting on.CheersMaggan</blockquote>

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