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Now that we have an in-house Zine, issues concerning licenses and whatnot are all of a sudden more pressing. I thought it might be helpful to compile a list of systems and licenses, especially those that are CC rather than OGL/ORC or some other 3PL to help us all navigate the murky waters of intellectual property. I'll start,
Arcane Library - there's a third party Creator Kit for Shadowdark - link
Blades in the Dark - The Blades in the Dark system has an SRD under a Creative Commons license CC-BY-3.0 (requires attribution). - link
Evil Hat Productions - The FATE system has an SRD and quite a bit of materials for it that have been released in both OGL and a Creative Commons license, CC-BY-3.0 (requires attribution) - link
GUMSHOE - The Gumshoe system also has an SRD released under the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license. This is the system used for games such as Ashen Stars, The Esoterrorists, Fear Itself, Mutant City Blues, Night's Black Agents, Swords of the Serpentine, TimeWatch, Trail of Cthulhu, and The Yellow King RPG. - link
Hillfolk/DramaSystem - The system behind Robin Law's Hillfolk (DramaSystem) has an SRD under a Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license (in addition to the OGL). - link
Sine Nomine - Kevin Crawford has seemingly always considered his rules open, but with Cities Without Number he explicitly released an SRD that is licensed CC0. You can grab it free on DriveThruRPG and the download contains PDF, TXT and HTML versions of the 70-ish page document. - link
Necrotic Gnome - there is a 3PL for Dolmenwood in the works that should be out soon. I contacted them and they said that casual mentions of the setting and some of it's contents is fine in the meantime. I'll add a link when the 3PL becomes available.
Wizards of the Coast - While WotC did try to revoke the OGL, setting off dramas we are all now well familiar with, in the end there was the release of an SRD that was dual-licensed. It comes in both OGL and CC-BY-4.0 (requires attribution) flavors. - link
I can add links and info alphabetically to the OP as they get posted.
Edit: Let's include links to the various publisher's main sites as well as to any licensing info, if possible.
Arcane Library - there's a third party Creator Kit for Shadowdark - link
Blades in the Dark - The Blades in the Dark system has an SRD under a Creative Commons license CC-BY-3.0 (requires attribution). - link
Evil Hat Productions - The FATE system has an SRD and quite a bit of materials for it that have been released in both OGL and a Creative Commons license, CC-BY-3.0 (requires attribution) - link
GUMSHOE - The Gumshoe system also has an SRD released under the Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license. This is the system used for games such as Ashen Stars, The Esoterrorists, Fear Itself, Mutant City Blues, Night's Black Agents, Swords of the Serpentine, TimeWatch, Trail of Cthulhu, and The Yellow King RPG. - link
Hillfolk/DramaSystem - The system behind Robin Law's Hillfolk (DramaSystem) has an SRD under a Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license (in addition to the OGL). - link
Sine Nomine - Kevin Crawford has seemingly always considered his rules open, but with Cities Without Number he explicitly released an SRD that is licensed CC0. You can grab it free on DriveThruRPG and the download contains PDF, TXT and HTML versions of the 70-ish page document. - link
Necrotic Gnome - there is a 3PL for Dolmenwood in the works that should be out soon. I contacted them and they said that casual mentions of the setting and some of it's contents is fine in the meantime. I'll add a link when the 3PL becomes available.
Wizards of the Coast - While WotC did try to revoke the OGL, setting off dramas we are all now well familiar with, in the end there was the release of an SRD that was dual-licensed. It comes in both OGL and CC-BY-4.0 (requires attribution) flavors. - link
I can add links and info alphabetically to the OP as they get posted.
Edit: Let's include links to the various publisher's main sites as well as to any licensing info, if possible.
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