--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 2/17/2004 10:10:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> > Crippled OGC does the exact OPPOSITE of what it's intended to do.
> > >>
> 
> Since the OGL explicitly allows people to PI spell names, and since spell 
> name collections are copyrightable and subject to being PI'd, I'd say PI'ing
> spell name collections is _explicitly_ allowable and _intended_ under the
> language 
> of the OGL.

Crippling OGC causes the re-user to change the name.  This makes it impossible
for people reading the re-use to have a lot harder time tracing the OGL back
to its original source, effectively severing it from it's origination... which
is exactly the opposite of the intention of the crippler.

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estimate [of october 2002].  They never said there was an imminent threat. "
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and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country 
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