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Hey all,
Just looking over the different licenses as research, and thought of an interesting question. If I were to publish a 3.5 compatible adventure under the OGL and sell it normally, but then publish a seperate conversion guide to help buyers convert the adventure to PFRPG as a free download, does that count as a commercial use requiring the requisition of a Compatability License or can it, as a free product, fall under the Community Use Policy? Thanks for the help, and either way I'll be looking into supporting the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game into the future.

TWB


I'm not a lawyer, but I think this counts as being "not completely free". It's basically a conversion for a commercial product, which means you can't use the Community use policy.

It makes sense, too: Someone could write a generic adventure and then have a "free" conversion guide transplanting the adventure onto Golarion.

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The Wandering Bard wrote:

Hey all,

Just looking over the different licenses as research, and thought of an interesting question. If I were to publish a 3.5 compatible adventure under the OGL and sell it normally, but then publish a seperate conversion guide to help buyers convert the adventure to PFRPG as a free download, does that count as a commercial use requiring the requisition of a Compatability License or can it, as a free product, fall under the Community Use Policy? Thanks for the help, and either way I'll be looking into supporting the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game into the future.

TWB

If you sell *any* gaming products you publish, that makes you a professional publisher, which means you can't use the Community Use Policy.

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