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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 1495301" data-attributes="member: 5724">I think what we're basically talking about is courtesy-- not morality, ethics, or legality. Acceptable behavior isn't always courteous. One can behave morally and ethically and still be discourteous. There's nothing "wrong" with being discourteous --one can't please everyone all the time-- as courtesy is something beyond the expected neutral behavior. It also varies a lot from person to person.Someone can put almost all of UA up on a website the day after it's released. This is a GOOD thing. This is what the OGL is for. However, it's discourteous to the publisher to do it so quickly because it may hurt sales and therefore, the publisher's continued support of that which allows the website to put up UA OGC.It's a circle of courtesy by all involved that hopefully increases both the publisher's and user's enjoyment of the game through the continued creation, use, and support of OGC. Through discourtesy, the creator of the website has the abilty to hurt the publisher of a product through moral, ethical, and legally acceptable actions. Why do I think it's discourteous? Because the website doesn't have to put the OGC material up in a publically distributed manner en toto right after release. If the website needs the OGC for a campaign (or any other time-sensitive reason) there are many ways to specifically distribute this OGC to those who need the material, and not to everyone in general. This obviously makes some dificulties for the website, but at the same time, it's more courteous to the publisher, without which, after all, there wouldn't be the OGC to begin with. The website extends some courtesy to the publisher in this manner.Publishers would like others to consider their well being when distributing OGC. This isn't a requirement, nor even an expectation (they agreed to the OGL after all), and neither is any behavior acceptable under the OGL immoral or unethical. Considering others in one's decision, however, is being courteous.IMHO.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />joe b.</blockquote>

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