I had read somewhere that Dungeon World was published under Creative Commons, but I couldn’t find that anywhere in…

I had read somewhere that Dungeon World was published under Creative Commons, but I couldn’t find that anywhere in…

I had read somewhere that Dungeon World was published under Creative Commons, but I couldn’t find that anywhere in the book. Was I incorrect in my understanding?

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  1. well until the CC is tested in court it’s all theory. Fortunately, unless anything you make involves a product from a definitely closed product (WoTC, SJGames) our hobby is so niche that you’ll likely just a tongue lashing and asked to issue some kind of correction.

  2. Joachim Erdtman I’m not sure I understand the question. Releasing a text via CC doesn’t void your copyright ownership of the text. You still hold copyright on the original, even if you say that people can copy it or make derivative works under the limited terms of a CC license. The creators themselves still have the full set of rights that any copyright holder would have, including distributing or selling copies that aren’t legally copyable.

    Don’t think of CC/not-CC as a binary state that applies to the work as a whole, think of it as something that goes along with each particular copy of the original. The copy that they put up on Github has a CC license attached, so you can make all of the copies/derivative works of that stuff that you want as long as you abide by the license. That doesn’t mean you also have the right to copy from something that doesn’t have a license. “But the text is identical!” you say? Yeah, so just start from the stuff that’s explicitly labelled CC and don’t worry about it. The existence of a non-CC copy doesn’t erase the CC copy from the spacetime continuum. They can happily coexist.

  3. I wish we would have included a line in the book that said “the text of this book is CC-licensed” but unfortunately we didn’t think of that (and it might have been complex with the quotes in the margins).

    The Github text is what we developed from except for the very last round of edits, where our text-to-layout process broke. We’re committed to DW being CC.

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