As I understand it, if you made your version of the god stats open but falsely declare the god names PI, they could still use your open stats with the god names and you'd have no claim because you simply can't claim those names as PI.It's not that I can't claim them as PI, it's that claiming them as PI requires them to find an alternate source.
While, technically, a good case can be made that mere usage of identical stats doesn't make a copyrightable character, we could also aruge that rules aren't protected by copyright, and so the OGL is unecessary. The OGL is designed to create a lawsuit-free "Safe Harbor." PI'ing a PD name essentially means "if you use this name this way, you've left the safe harbor and I may pursue legal action." Leaving the safe harbor is generally a bad idea.
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