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<blockquote data-quote="Kinematics" data-source="post: 8889905" data-attributes="member: 6932123"><p>I didn't say otherwise. It's still probably most people who would do this for a living, rather than a side hobby. And $50k is total revenue, not net. Someone who sold $50k worth of material might be scraping by on $20k personal income, at best.</p><p></p><p></p><p>From comments here and there, the profit margin most publishers are working on is in the 10%-20% range. Making the book is a lump sum cost, but printing the book is a pretty large repeating cost. And that doesn't count other fees (eg: Kickstarter fees), taxes, shipping costs, inventory/storage costs, etc.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well... yeah? The GPL, the Creative Commons, most any open source license, they're all implicitly or explicitly irrevokable. So yes, that's a perfectly viable alternative.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If some part of the license is subject to "changing circumstances", that's your first clue that this shouldn't be an open license. At the very least it should be a separate contract, and probably a privately negotiated one, not a global public one.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Not rare at all. Consider pretty much every piece of open source software on the planet. It's fundamental to most Linux distributions, with the GPL. The world is teeming with such contracts. (Or at least for the duration of the copyright, which is effectively forever for most people in the US.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I didn't make any assertions about the argument over what WotC can use of the licensees' works. I have no specific stance on it at this time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kinematics, post: 8889905, member: 6932123"] I didn't say otherwise. It's still probably most people who would do this for a living, rather than a side hobby. And $50k is total revenue, not net. Someone who sold $50k worth of material might be scraping by on $20k personal income, at best. From comments here and there, the profit margin most publishers are working on is in the 10%-20% range. Making the book is a lump sum cost, but printing the book is a pretty large repeating cost. And that doesn't count other fees (eg: Kickstarter fees), taxes, shipping costs, inventory/storage costs, etc. Well... yeah? The GPL, the Creative Commons, most any open source license, they're all implicitly or explicitly irrevokable. So yes, that's a perfectly viable alternative. If some part of the license is subject to "changing circumstances", that's your first clue that this shouldn't be an open license. At the very least it should be a separate contract, and probably a privately negotiated one, not a global public one. Not rare at all. Consider pretty much every piece of open source software on the planet. It's fundamental to most Linux distributions, with the GPL. The world is teeming with such contracts. (Or at least for the duration of the copyright, which is effectively forever for most people in the US.) I didn't make any assertions about the argument over what WotC can use of the licensees' works. I have no specific stance on it at this time. [/QUOTE]
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