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<blockquote data-quote="smetzger" data-source="post: 263596" data-attributes="member: 1230"><p>This is not a good comparison. The OGL is a license; you have not given us a license for your boards. License means "Official or legal permission to do or own a specific thing." In fact this is much more legal than some of the files that you have on EN World. For instance the sidetreks are not OGL or d20 compliant yet they use rules out of the SRD.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The OGL was modeled after the GNU software license. The intent of GNU is to provide free software. So, the intent can quite easily be construed to be the free use of D&D rules. This is even backed up by WOTCs releasing the d20 SRD for free. WOTC doesn't need to post the SRD on the web they could sell it seperatly or they could have just designated OGC in the books as per the d20 license. My point is that neither of us work for WOTC and were in on the discussions about the OGL/d20; so we can only conjecture about what the 'intent' of OGL and d20 is. </p><p></p><p>I can see where you are coming from. d20 publishers and authors deserve to be compensated for their work. I agree with this. This is something that the software community has struggled with for some time. Yet, there are companies that are making money by selling software that can be downloaded for free. </p><p></p><p>I do not think that an online library that is distributing all the OGL and OGC material electronically will hurt sales of products. It may in fact help sales. I am assuming that you feel that it is morally wrong because it will negatively effect someones bottom line. </p><p></p><p>Why do you feel it is morally wrong? The 'intent' argument does not hold with me because I don't agree with your premise on the 'intent' of d20. Your argument about the 'unwritten rules' is also falling on deaf ears because I haven't seen evidence of a code of honor among d20 publishers. We have seen plenty of d20 publishers who have misused the d20 logo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smetzger, post: 263596, member: 1230"] This is not a good comparison. The OGL is a license; you have not given us a license for your boards. License means "Official or legal permission to do or own a specific thing." In fact this is much more legal than some of the files that you have on EN World. For instance the sidetreks are not OGL or d20 compliant yet they use rules out of the SRD. The OGL was modeled after the GNU software license. The intent of GNU is to provide free software. So, the intent can quite easily be construed to be the free use of D&D rules. This is even backed up by WOTCs releasing the d20 SRD for free. WOTC doesn't need to post the SRD on the web they could sell it seperatly or they could have just designated OGC in the books as per the d20 license. My point is that neither of us work for WOTC and were in on the discussions about the OGL/d20; so we can only conjecture about what the 'intent' of OGL and d20 is. I can see where you are coming from. d20 publishers and authors deserve to be compensated for their work. I agree with this. This is something that the software community has struggled with for some time. Yet, there are companies that are making money by selling software that can be downloaded for free. I do not think that an online library that is distributing all the OGL and OGC material electronically will hurt sales of products. It may in fact help sales. I am assuming that you feel that it is morally wrong because it will negatively effect someones bottom line. Why do you feel it is morally wrong? The 'intent' argument does not hold with me because I don't agree with your premise on the 'intent' of d20. Your argument about the 'unwritten rules' is also falling on deaf ears because I haven't seen evidence of a code of honor among d20 publishers. We have seen plenty of d20 publishers who have misused the d20 logo. [/QUOTE]
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