Licensing Gaming Material

Rob Myers robmyers at mac.com
Fri Jun 3 14:48:24 EDT 2005


On 3 Jun 2005, at 10:03, Peter Brink wrote:

> Free Roleplaying Community ( http://www.freeroleplay.org/ ) might  
> be good place to start. Note however that the folks at  
> freeroleplay.org don't seem to consider CC licenses to be free, in  
> the OSF sense.

They seem to use the original FSF sense of "Free".

> They recommend GPL. Since you seem to target both software and  
> literary works GPL might be a better choice for you.

Certainly if the "source code" can be identified this might be a good  
solution. Or there's the OGL which despite its faults (the real ones,  
not the FUD ones) has a large body of gaming-related work already  
under it, is well known and understood, and is reasonably robust.

- Rob.



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