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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3506264" data-attributes="member: 22882">Open content is open, like the source code for Linux.All you have to do to meet the requirements of the license is credit the original source.&nbsp; You don't have to ask the source's permission.&nbsp; Nor can you explicitly require someone to get your permission to use your open content; if you did, it would by definition no longer be open. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />That's not to say a lot of publishers won't get your permission or at least let you know; they may get free advertising by linking your product and theirs, so they'll want to inform you in the hopes you'll give them a link or whatnot.On the flip side, you can 'cripple' your open content by making only parts usable.&nbsp; For example, by making 'capitalized names of spells, feats and creatures' product identity, and then capitalizing all the names, you force someone to either rename everything or come to you for permission to use the content.&nbsp; Far more likely, however, is that your content will simply not be reused.&nbsp; This practice is at least slightly frowned upon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 3506264, member: 22882"] Open content is [B]open[/B], like the source code for Linux. All you have to do to meet the requirements of the license is credit the original source. You don't have to ask the source's permission. Nor can you explicitly require someone to get your permission to use your open content; if you did, it would by definition no longer be open. ;) That's not to say a lot of publishers won't get your permission or at least let you know; they may get free advertising by linking your product and theirs, so they'll want to inform you in the hopes you'll give them a link or whatnot. On the flip side, you can 'cripple' your open content by making only parts usable. For example, by making 'capitalized names of spells, feats and creatures' product identity, and then capitalizing all the names, you force someone to either rename everything or come to you for permission to use the content. Far more likely, however, is that your content will simply not be reused. This practice is at least slightly frowned upon. [/QUOTE]

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