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<blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1489547" data-attributes="member: 6398">See, to me, the publisher's and author's wishes are inconsequential.&nbsp; Indeed, these wishes seem to ignore (and even conflict with) the agreement they make when they release Open Gaming material...&nbsp;OGL 1.0a, (1c): &quot;Distribute&quot; means to reproduce, license, rent, lease, sell, broadcast, publicly display, transmit or otherwise distribute;&nbsp;For this dicussion, &quot;publicly display&quot; is the primary topic.&nbsp;OGL 1.0a, (1a): &quot;Contributors&quot; means the copyright and/or trademark owners who have contributed Open Game Content;&nbsp;and&nbsp;OGL 1.0a, (4): Grant and Consideration: In consideration for agreeing to use this License, the Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license with the extact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content.&nbsp;So WotC, as the &quot;Contributer&quot; per section 1a, have agreed to allow me (the &quot;You&quot; in section 4) to do anything I wish so long as I abide by the terms of the License, which allows, per section 1c, public displays of OGC material.&nbsp; Sure, writers and publishers can wish for their material not to be reproduced; They may even ask that it not be done.&nbsp; However, by using the OGL, they have already given their consent, per section 3 (Offer and Acceptance: By Using the Open Game Content You indicate Your acceptance of the terms of this license.).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bendris Noulg, post: 1489547, member: 6398"] See, to me, the publisher's and author's wishes are inconsequential. Indeed, these wishes seem to ignore (and even conflict with) the agreement they make when they release Open Gaming material... [color=white]OGL 1.0a, (1c): "Distribute" means to reproduce, license, rent, lease, sell, broadcast, publicly display, transmit or otherwise distribute;[/color] For this dicussion, "publicly display" is the primary topic. [color=white]OGL 1.0a, (1a): "Contributors" means the copyright and/or trademark owners who have contributed Open Game Content;[/color] and [color=white]OGL 1.0a, (4): Grant and Consideration: In consideration for agreeing to use this License, the Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license with the extact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content.[/color] So WotC, as the "Contributer" per section 1a, have agreed to allow me (the "You" in section 4) to do anything I wish so long as I abide by the terms of the License, which allows, per section 1c, public displays of OGC material. Sure, writers and publishers can wish for their material not to be reproduced; They may even ask that it not be done. However, by using the OGL, they have [i]already[/i] given their consent, per section 3 ([color=white]Offer and Acceptance: By Using the Open Game Content You indicate Your acceptance of the terms of this license.[/color]). [/QUOTE]

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