The Open Gaming Foundation and Open Gaming License: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 19:46, 12 July 2025

In 1999 I helped Wizards of the Coast develop and deploy the Open Gaming License (aka the OGL). In 2000, we released the rules of Dungeons & Dragons via that license using a mechanism called a System Reference Document to clearly and unambiguously indicate what content was now Open Game Content.

In parallel I created a website for an organization I called the Open Gaming Foundation which has no legal existence but represents my hopes and aspirations for the long term success of the movement for Open Gaming, which promotes the idea that the rules for games should not by restricted by copyright and should be free to be used, modified, and redistributed in any legal manner, much like the principles of the Open Source Software movement.

The Open Gaming Foundation website continues to exist and provide references to those who seek them.

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-This project converts the installer provided by [https://hallowelt.com/en/ Hallo Welt!] into a system that can install multiple [https://bluespice.com/ BlueSpice] wikis on the same host. The original installation system used a file-based mechanism which allowed an administrator to install multiple wikis on one host; but in 2025 Hallo Welt! changed to a containerized installation using Docker which assumed one wiki per machine. In response I created this project to make the installation system more robust.
+In 1999 I helped Wizards of the Coast develop and deploy the Open Gaming License (aka the OGL). In 2000, we released the rules of Dungeons & Dragons via that license using a mechanism called a System Reference Document to clearly and unambiguously indicate what content was now Open Game Content.
-I started with the installers provided by Hallo Welt from the Blue Spice Installer page, and then working with the [https://www.warp.dev/warp-ai Warp AI] client I built a system that separated the installation into a group of shared services that would be installed once, and wiki systems that would be installed for each wiki.
+In parallel I created a website for an organization I called the Open Gaming Foundation which has no legal existence but represents my hopes and aspirations for the long term success of the movement for Open Gaming, which promotes the idea that the rules for games should not by restricted by copyright and should be free to be used, modified, and redistributed in any legal manner, much like the principles of the Open Source Software movement.
-The system now does important things like ensure that each wiki is isolated and has its own database users and directories which are mapped from the host inside the container for the wiki.
+The [https://opengamingfoundation.org/ Open Gaming Foundation website] continues to exist and provide references to those who seek them.
-I also did a quality of life improvement by creating a sendTestEmail maintenance script that can be used to ensure the SMTP settings are working, and a script called mediawiki_backup.sh which can be used to back up a wiki in a form that can then be imported during the BlueSpice initialization process.
-This project is hosted on github.com. The project is entitled [https://github.com/rsdancey/BlueSpice-Multiwiki-Install BlueSpice-Multiwiki-Install]
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