licenses for RPGs

phil hunt philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Mar 20 13:39:19 UTC 2001


On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, David Johnson wrote:
> 
> The only licenses halfway-acceptable for me are the OOGl and OGL. 

What do you like about these licenses?

> I have two 
> issues with them. First, they are lengthy and potentially confusing (to the 
> user) licenses. 
> 
> Second, they are copyleft, and I am not desiring a copyleft license for this 
> project. Unfortunately, the Open Gaming License will only approve copylefted 
> licenses and games. In other words, I can release a public domain game and 
> they would refuse to call it free and open.

That seems bizarre to me. 

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