On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:28:38 -0500 "Tir Gwaith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious: If a company declares something OGC in one book, can > they later on in another book declare it PI? And what does that > due to the people who want to use it? Is it OGC or is it PI > content? > > Essentially, WotC declared d20 as OGC in the 3.0 SRD. Now they are > trying to close that. I thought that had been argued to death as > not possible. The reverse was, but not closing something. You > could always open it more, never close.
You can't Close someone else's Open Content after you borrow it from their product and move it into yours. You can't have the same content both Open and Closed in the same product. You can't declare something you borrow from someone else's Open Content as Product Identity in your own product. But there's nothing to prevent you from declaring something you produce yourself to be OGC in one book and PI in another. And if someone else wants to use the OGC version of whatever it is that you've PI'ed later, they can do so, so long as they only use OGC derived from that original Open source, and refrain from using material that's derived (directly or indirectly) from the PI source. Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
