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LICENSE invalid characters and other mistakes #193

Closed nerun closed 2 years ago

nerun commented 2 years ago

INVALID CHARACTERS

Every time when i directly download or git clone this repository, i got many invalid characters as shown by images. Direct download only show one single invalid character (line 141, 3rd image). Click to enlarge:

This file fix this issue for me. I didn't remove anything, just invalid characters: LICENSE (fixed)

OGL copyright position and uneeded copyright notices

I am a lawyer, but I'm not using this as an argument of authority. So, in my understanding:

1) "Dungeon World Copyright" should come after, not before, "Rot Grub from the Tome of Horrors Copyright".

The way as I interpret the OGL, Session 15 is like a bibliography and a changelog. The last changes come by last.

2) SRD 3.0 copyright can be safely removed.

Since "System Reference Document Copyright 2000-2003" (SRD 3.5) incorporates all the content of the "System Reference Document Copyright 2000" (SRD 3.0), you don't need to add SRD 3.0 copyright, just SRD 3.5. If you read legal notice of SRD 3.5, you will see that even Wizards ignored SRD 3.0.

3) MSRD copyrigh maybe can be safely removed, it will depend on whether you have actually used this content.

Have you actually used any content from "Modern System Reference Document Copyright 2002-2004" (MSRD)? It seems to me not. If you haven't, you can safely remove MSRD copyright as well.

4) Product Identity and Creative Commons

Seems that you used the OGL only to add the names of monsters and spells mentioned as Open Game Content at the beginning of the license. If this is true, it might be better to add the product identity to make it clear:

DESIGNATION OF PRODUCT IDENTITY Except for the names listed as Open Game Content above, and any other content that may be clearly identified as directly copied from any Open Game Content mentioned in clause "15. COPYRIGHT NOTICE" below, all text in this material is designated as Product Identity as per clause 7 of Open Game License. Instead, all of this text here designated as Product Identity is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

nerun commented 2 years ago

Taking a second look at DW SRD, I see some influence from Modern SRD: when PCs reach level 10 they must choose another class. It's a feature of the Modern SRD for sure. Should keep this copyright.

Another thing came to my mind: if "Tome of Horrors" (ToH) was created in 2002, it used SRD 3.0 surely, and it should have that copyright in its section 15. If that's true, even if DW was just inspired by SRD 3.5 it must include SRD 3.0 as it was the source of ToH.

So, my considerations 2 and 3 can be ignored.

Sagelt commented 2 years ago

On the invalid characters: likely something odd from the text editor I used years ago (whatever it was at the time), I've taken the suggested clean up in https://github.com/Sagelt/Dungeon-World/commit/94e7dd2b63fcecd08f5dbb6ab3d0943a172ece4d

Other points handled in https://github.com/Sagelt/Dungeon-World/commit/4396069d1a154c59627f0a142b84274eddf50c92