[freeroleplay] Re: Free PRG around the world
- From: Ricardo Gladwell <ax0n@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Nana Nehrbass <nana@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:11:39 +0000
Dear Nana,
Thank for your interest in the Free Roleplaying Community. I'd be more
than happy to supply you with the information you request for your
publication.
The Free Roleplaying Community
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The Free Roleplaying Community, or FRPGC, is a group of gamers,
roleplayers and game designers dedicated to producing free content for
roleplaying games. We support the freedoms of speech, press, and
association and, in particular, the right to create roleplaying material
unimpeded by private monopolies. We believe that all material for
roleplaying games, particular the rule systems and game mechanics,
should be freely and openly shared with the whole roleplaying community.
The FRPGC was started mainly as a response to the "open gaming" movement
popularised by the d20 system. The open gaming movement was supposed to
be based upon the open source movement. However, many fel that the
official license of the movement, the OGL[1], didn't go far enough and
barely matched the loose definition of open source as defined by the
OSI[2]. What many of us wanted to see was a version of the Free Software
Foundation[3] (FSF) for roleplaying game content.
The FRPGC is heavily inspired by the FSF. The GNU Public License[4] is
our official 'content' license. However, there are differences between
the two organisations. Primarily, the FSF does not believe that the
freedoms it applies to software should also be applied to documents and
written works. It is for this reason the FRPGC rejects the FSF's content
license, the GNU Free Documentation License, in favor of the GPL.
We are still a relatively new organistion. At the moment we merely
support and link to existing free content games and systems. We are
looking to develop our own free content roleplaying system, FRINGE[5].
Eventually, we'd like to have the resources and numbers to mount a
sustained campaign to advocate free content.
We'd certainly be interested in starting non-English chapters of our
organisation in other countries so if anyone is interested in creating a
German-language version of the FRPGC please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/ogl.html
Full text of the Open Gaming License.
[2] http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html
The Open Source Definition as defnied by the official open source body,
the Open Source Initiative.
[3] http://www.fsf.org/
Free Software Foundation, home of the GNU project.
[4]http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
The GNU General Public License, our official content license.
[5]http://www.freeroleplay.org/fringe/
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I apologise in advance that I couldn't write this in German.
Unfortunately, I believe we only have English-speaking members so far.
If you could let us know if you intend to use the above information in
your magaznie and how a non-German national could buy a copy, I would be
most grateful. :)
Kinds regards...
--
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Nana Nehrbass wrote:
> Dear Ricardo Gladwell,
>
> I am new chief editor of the Trireme, a german newsletter for people
> interested in playing and developing free role-playing games.
> After some pause I am now happy that we have managed to publish once
> again! We have 4 issues a year, being freely distributed via internet
> and as printed versions in shops, cons and other public events.
> In our search for interesting topics we came to the conclusion that an
> insight in such communities in other countries might be a very inspiring
> thing. I would be glad, if you or one of your community could send us a
> few informations about you e.g. short introduction of how you were
> founded, how you are structured, which your biggest achievments are and
> of course, we would refer to your webpage. Any additional information,
> such as Discriptions of systems, discussions about (dis)advantages of
> certain systems, articles about hassles with copyrights and experiences
> with publishers, but also author contacts etc. we gladly welcome.
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
> Regards, Nana
>
>
>
> *******************************
> Nana Nehrbass
> Chief editor of the Trireme
>
> Nana.Nehrbass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Trireme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> http://www.projekt-odyssee.de/index.php?inhalt=nachrichtenblatt
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