> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ryan S. Dancey > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] "D20" as Product Identity > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 14:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Would you care to enumerate for us, the kind of ownership and other > > requirements, etc. might be required to PI concepts, poses, etc. > > (things not traditionally thought of as copyrightable material outside > > of a specific implementation of the concept)? > > I believe you must demonstrate "an enhancement over the prior art". > That is, you have to demonstrate that whatever you're making > a PI claim for is original in some sense to you, and not > something that could be alternately sourced from the public domain.
I agree with that as a goal, but language to that effect doesn't appear in the license. Is it your belief -- recognizing that you're not in the business of providing legal advice -- that a court would read this intent into the wording of the license? I can think of at least a hundred discussions on this list that would never have occurred if the license were as plain in this regard as what you just wrote. Martin L. Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
