[freeroleplay] The Open Gaming License

[James Jensen <cheeb2002@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I could rant for hours (OK, maybe not hours) about the Open Gaming 
License and the sham WotC is trying to pull on its customers by the 
stuff they say about the OGL. First of all, it's copyleft inside-out, 
almost guaranteeing not that the game will almost never be totally free. 
Second of all, *they* are not using the license for any of their 
commercially-published stuff.

But, like the Open Publication License, it seems to me that the OGL 
_can_ be a free gaming license - anything defined as Open Game Content 
is free, as freeroleplay.org's site says. So anything with no Product 
Identity or with appropriately licensed Product Identity would be a Free 
Game, wouldn't it?

If the FSF is OK with the Netscape Public License and the Open 
Publication License, don't you think the Open Gaming License needs to be 
treated similarly?

-J. Jensen

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