I have some hypothetical questions to bounce of Matt here, as I'm a bit confused about how this works:
1) if someone writes up a book of ship designs using the SRD, do all those designs have to be made available under the OGL?
2) If someone wants to add new tech or equipment to the OGL, does that mean that they can't charge for the product? Or can they only charge if there's stuff in there that isn't Open Content?
3) If third parties make new material available under the OGL alone, is that material added to the Traveller SRD? Or is it added only if the TLL is used?
4) Is there really any advantage to publishing material without the TLL? It seems that the TLL lets you say "this is a Traveller compatible product" (and be much more 'visible' to people as a result), but otherwise very little more has to be done to conform to it than one would have to do for publishing under the OGL alone. So why publish under the OGL alone at all? I guess the only advantage for publishing under the OGL alone is that Mongoose can't pull your license if they chose to (I can't imagine why that would happen though)?
Or have I missed a point somewhere here?
1) if someone writes up a book of ship designs using the SRD, do all those designs have to be made available under the OGL?
2) If someone wants to add new tech or equipment to the OGL, does that mean that they can't charge for the product? Or can they only charge if there's stuff in there that isn't Open Content?
3) If third parties make new material available under the OGL alone, is that material added to the Traveller SRD? Or is it added only if the TLL is used?
4) Is there really any advantage to publishing material without the TLL? It seems that the TLL lets you say "this is a Traveller compatible product" (and be much more 'visible' to people as a result), but otherwise very little more has to be done to conform to it than one would have to do for publishing under the OGL alone. So why publish under the OGL alone at all? I guess the only advantage for publishing under the OGL alone is that Mongoose can't pull your license if they chose to (I can't imagine why that would happen though)?
Or have I missed a point somewhere here?
