> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John McCarty > Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 5:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ogf-l] Greetings and a question > > > Hello: > > My name is John McCarty, I'm a freelance writer with one > credit so far (Dragon #283, Realistic Religion) and some > pending work with other publishers. I'm very happy to be here > and have a question.
Welcome aboard! > I am working on a project and would like to include some > feats from the Forgotten Realms sourcebook. These, of > course, are not in the SRD. > > Do these come under the gentlemen's agreement? Or are they > forbidden fruit? Plenty of others have answered your question. I'd like to address a second matter. As of now, I believe THERE IS NO GENTLEPERSON'S AGREEMENT. That agreement was an understanding between gentlepersons that if you used material in the draft SRD that had not been released, and if you used that material under the OGL in a proper fashion as if it had been released, the Wizards would not take action for what might arguably be seen as unlicensed use of their material. In return, you would take necessary and reasonable corrective actions to bring your material into compliance with the released version of that material when it finally came out. But as of now, there is no more draft SRD material. It has all been released. Furthermore, Wizards has announced that in the future, they will not be using the draft mechanism (which was always just a stopgap measure), but will instead be releasing OGC only in released form (and as best they are able, close to the release date of any corresponding closed content, though they're making no promises). So from this point forward, I believe the Gentleperson's Agreement is no longer in effect. The only exception I can imagine is that publishers who have older, non-compliant materials still are expected to take reasonable measures to bring it into compliance. (I also believe that, like the OGL and software, the Gentleperson's Agreement is a topic that will keep coming up for a long time to come...) Martin L. Shoemaker Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting, Software Design and UML Training [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.MartinLShoemaker.com http://www.UMLBootCamp.com http://www.TabletUML.com -- The UML tool you don't have to learn! _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
