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Originally Posted by sinisalo
Immediately someone comes on and starts waving the threat of cease and desist notices. Thanks Loz. Free discussion on this subject on the internet is just that - free. It only becomes an issue when money starts changing hands or it can be proven that Greg's business is affected. Free intellectual discussion is certainly protected by British law at least and long may it remain so.
Greg or Mongoose cannot own or suppress ideas, sorry.
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I'm sorry you feel I'm trying to rain on the parade, Sinisalo, but you're completely misunderstanding my intentions.
All I'm trying to do is...
A) Point out that Issaries, the owner of the Glorantha IP, operates a fan policy regarding Gloranthan fan-based output, either in physical or electronic print.
B) Both Moon Design and Mongoose have paid for licences to produce Gloranthan material and that it would be
wise to just check that nothing's being, or
could be, infringed.
Neither of these is particularly onerous to do, and is a simple, common courtesy to the licensor and licensees. As Paolo has already said:
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The purpose of the group is to create some general consensus around a cross-system ruleset, and then make the ruleset available via a Wiki (or the Alephtar Games website). At that point everyone is free to take it and use it with BRP, MRQ, CoC, RQ2, etc.
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Emphasis mine. This
could run the risk of contravening either the Fan Policy or an existing license, if the intention is to publish something - free or not - in the public domain. You clearly don't feel such things are important, but I happen to think they are. Far from trying to 'wave the threat of cease and desist notices', I'm just trying to make sure that no-one else - Greg or otherwise - does. In other words, make sure that this project, which I think is a good one, gets off to the best possible start.
The exchange of ideas is no problem, but publishing stuff could be. Still, if
you want to run that risk, then be my guest.
I'm not getting into any flamewars over this so don't expect me to get into debates here, or anywhere else. But please, do look carefully at what I was saying before accusing me of being heavy-handed.
I hope that there aren't any problems - but its surely better to make the appropriate checks first (and Paolo may have already done so) than to plough straight in and repent later.