Semi-open source
At bySwarm, we are going to have a model that's pretty close to open source. You maintain ownership on anything you submit, but you give the rest of the community a license to use it for free for use in their games and you give the company a license to use your contributions in published products. If your contributions do make it into a published product, you'll get part of the 60% revenue share that goes back to the authors. We're looking at the whole project as a way for anyone with writing skills and creativity to contribute to a sort of living campaign setting.
There's a lot more detail on the site if you are interested. Our deadline for setting concepts (Stage 1) is February 20, so there's only a few weeks left.
At bySwarm, we are going to have a model that's pretty close to open source. You maintain ownership on anything you submit, but you give the rest of the community a license to use it for free for use in their games and you give the company a license to use your contributions in published products. If your contributions do make it into a published product, you'll get part of the 60% revenue share that goes back to the authors. We're looking at the whole project as a way for anyone with writing skills and creativity to contribute to a sort of living campaign setting.
There's a lot more detail on the site if you are interested. Our deadline for setting concepts (Stage 1) is February 20, so there's only a few weeks left.