[od-discuss] Getting the Open Game License accepted under the Open Definition

Mon Aug 12 04:28:42 UTC 2013

Thanks for following this up, Mike. I appreciate your advocacy.

I see a larger role for the OKFN in the future in engaging with free
culture and not focusing on data, the public sector and research. I think
the Public Domain Review is a good start, and shows that there's an
appetite for this sort of thing.

The Open Game License is certainly a consequential and popular cultural
licence. Thousands of products have been released under it; its structure
and scope are distinctive; and its origin is (as far as I know) unique in
that it is a non-software public copyright licence created by a company.

However, I also recognise the feeling that the License is outside of OD
expertise and perhaps the OKFN's current scope. I might push again if the
License is used for the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition or if the
OKFN expands further into free culture.

Cheers,
Chris

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On 10 August 2013 09:41, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:

> As reflected in
>
> http://opendefinition.org/2013/08/08/notes-from-open-definition-call-august-2013/
> we briefly discussed the Open Game License, though not its substance.
> The feeling among those present was it may be out of scope for this
> group, and is outside of this group's expertise: unless someone wants
> strongly to convince otherwise and does so, we'll not officially
> evaluate the Open Game License's conformance or lack thereof.
>
> It'd be easy to convince me otherwise, but I'm probably an outlier
> here in terms of interest in licenses that have near zero public
> sector or research relevance; I don't want to push this through
> without other AC members' scrutiny.
>
> Mike
>
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