captainjack23 said:Well, that is the nub of the issue, isn't it ? It doesn't limit creativity, it just limits your ability to make money off of someone else's IP and mongooses licence. And frankly, allowing anyone to do that in any part of an IP is pretty damn generous..and fairly risky, too from what I understand about IP - its a lot harder to enforce licencing with a partial exception.
Sure, but it seems pointless to me. Given the the choice of either doing anything we want anywhere with Charted Space so long as it's free, or be able to charge for anything done in one specific sector that is way off the beaten track and has a limited set of backgrounds and assumptions that you can use, I'll happily take the "do anything we want with Charted Space for free" option - or even a separate "approach Mongoose and see if they're interested in publishing something set elsewhere in the OTU" option. Either gives me more creative freedom than one specific sector in Charted Space only.
So keep in mind that this kind of discussion, presented as commentary despite the lack of actual details is really just poisoning the well.
It's commentary and nothing else. I've made it very clear what is or isn't conjecture here.