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<blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 9038295" data-attributes="member: 70468"><p>That’s fair. I wasn’t part of those discussions, so I’m going by what they’ve said in the AxE. There are mentions of creating a “virtuous cycle” and wanting to make sure people give back (to protect it). I find some of their comparisons to software a bit dubious. There’s not really a contributor dynamic with RPGs. The development of RPGs is very <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/" target="_blank">cathedral-style</a>. You sometimes see repos that allow minor contributions, but usually the designers are doing their own thing. The dynamic for RPGs seems more that publishers occasionally use each other’s stuff (like how Paizo’s adventures for PF1 often include monsters from <em>Tome of Horrors Complete</em> or an NPC or monster with a class from another publisher’s book).</p><p></p><p></p><p>From what I understand, you just need to follow the attribution requirements specified by the original publisher to use CC-BY content. A couple of games I have that use CC-BY content are <em>Shadowdark</em> (the 5.1 SRD) and <em>Into the Dark</em> (the BitD SRD). Neither make their material available for others to use under a permissive license, though Shadowdark does have a reasonably generous (but not permissive) third party license. I expect as more people make material for D&D using the CC-BY SRD, there will be more examples of how to use it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kenada, post: 9038295, member: 70468"] That’s fair. I wasn’t part of those discussions, so I’m going by what they’ve said in the AxE. There are mentions of creating a “virtuous cycle” and wanting to make sure people give back (to protect it). I find some of their comparisons to software a bit dubious. There’s not really a contributor dynamic with RPGs. The development of RPGs is very [URL='http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/']cathedral-style[/URL]. You sometimes see repos that allow minor contributions, but usually the designers are doing their own thing. The dynamic for RPGs seems more that publishers occasionally use each other’s stuff (like how Paizo’s adventures for PF1 often include monsters from [I]Tome of Horrors Complete[/I] or an NPC or monster with a class from another publisher’s book). From what I understand, you just need to follow the attribution requirements specified by the original publisher to use CC-BY content. A couple of games I have that use CC-BY content are [I]Shadowdark[/I] (the 5.1 SRD) and [I]Into the Dark[/I] (the BitD SRD). Neither make their material available for others to use under a permissive license, though Shadowdark does have a reasonably generous (but not permissive) third party license. I expect as more people make material for D&D using the CC-BY SRD, there will be more examples of how to use it. [/QUOTE]
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