[cc-community] New Open Gaming Licence

Jon Phillips jon at creativecommons.org
Fri Feb 15 03:47:18 EST 2008


Thanks Rob, do you or anyone else have contacts to them...I'll do my
best to get in contact and talk to them about the issues...

What would be the best CC license that could be called an "Open Gaming
License" to all you nerds out there in cc gaming land wearing a viking
helmet witha battle axe in tow :)

Jon

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:43 +0000, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> The Open Gaming License is a copyleft-with-exclusions license (think  
> GNU FDL) that predates CC. It's basically for Dungeons & Dragons, and  
> a new edition of D&D is out soon. Hasbro, D&D's owners, are revising  
> the license for this:
> 
> http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4news/20080108a
> 
> It doesn't look good, see the comments here:
> 
> http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=24672
> 
> I can't find a public draft or review process for the license. It will  
> be a shame if Hasbro make the OGL more restrictive than it already is.
> 
> - Rob.
> 
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