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<blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 2721513" data-attributes="member: 2171">I'm not sure if you're accusing me of hypocrisy or speaking about d20 publishers in general.There was a time when the big trend was for publishers to aggregate and republish big collections of existing OGC from many publishers.&nbsp; We did not do this.&nbsp; However, we could see the obvious benefits to those who did -- namely, being able to sell big, thick books without having to pay for any of the writing.I should note that anything we (or anyone else) released as OGC can be reproduced freely, by anyone who follows the modest requirements of the OGL.&nbsp; Pirates, however, don't do that; they reproduce entire books, not just the OGC, and do not follow the OGL.&nbsp; As long as they followed the terms of the OGL, the people doing those aggregated works were doing nothing illegal nor unethical; they were doing something that anyone who understood the OGL expected would happen sooner or later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnNephew, post: 2721513, member: 2171"] I'm not sure if you're accusing me of hypocrisy or speaking about d20 publishers in general. There was a time when the big trend was for publishers to aggregate and republish big collections of existing OGC from many publishers. We did not do this. However, we could see the obvious benefits to those who did -- namely, being able to sell big, thick books without having to pay for any of the writing. I should note that anything we (or anyone else) released as OGC can be reproduced freely, by anyone who follows the modest requirements of the OGL. Pirates, however, don't do that; they reproduce entire books, not just the OGC, and do not follow the OGL. As long as they followed the terms of the OGL, the people doing those aggregated works were doing nothing illegal nor unethical; they were doing something that anyone who understood the OGL expected would happen sooner or later. [/QUOTE]

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