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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 2771521" data-attributes="member: 5724">Here's the catch. It's "free" in the extent that someone can distribute a copy without paying a fee. That just means that you don't have to pay the creator of OGC a fee to use his OGC in your product. You just have to follow the liscense.It is important to note, however, that a publisher may be able to add value to an Open Game in the form of non-Open Game material that enhances the Open Game content, provide various support services, or enhance the Open Game in other ways that will allow that publisher to charge for an Open Game, and cause people to be willing to pay for the Open Game material voluntarily.This is saying that I as a creator of OGC cannot put any restrictions on the re-user of OGC content, be that if they wish to publish it for Free (as in no cost) or for sale.Free as in there are no other restrictions upon the content except those placed upon it by the liscense, but not free as in "no cost." If you want to put OGC that someone else has created out there for no cost, that's a possiblity under the liscense, but that possiblity doesn't mean that everything published under the license "yerns to be free of cost."It may be a terminology thing for a lot of people. Free as in Open doesn't mean Free as in "no cost." Free can mean as in "no cost" but it doesn't have to mean it—it's left up to the publisher of the OPEN material to determine if it will be FREE (as in no cost).joe b.</blockquote>

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