--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/17/2004 10:01:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > <<No, I don't want 100% OGC. I want spell/feat/PrC/etc. names that don't > > include proper names to be OGC. Big difference. > > >> > > That's not the way the OGL works. Take a recipe. One may not be > copyrightable, but a collection of them _is_. The collection is _not_ > public domain by > any stretch of the imagination. Since a collection of spell names may be > copyrightable as original content, clearly then it should be possible to PI > that > collection.
I don't want a collection of names to be reusable, I want each individual spell name (that doesn't include a proper name) to be reusable. > If treated as individual units (one spell name at a time) it is unclear > whether ownership can be declared, since there is no standard for comparison > nor is there a definition of "owner" in the OGL. Thank you! That's an excellent argument against crippled OGC. > Moreover, even without that link to ownership, the OGL explicitly allows the > > PI'ing of a spell name as it refers to the spell: > > "names and descriptions of ... spells" can be declared as PI. As I have said, they CAN be. What I'm saying is that names (not descriptions) SHOULD NOT be, and whenever people can take the easy road to evade the PI, that is, to create a new name for it, they should do it. > By one construction of the OGL, the "forbidden terms" construction, almost > anything could be declared as PI if it's on the PI list, because by that > construction you are agreeing not to use certain terms in order to use the > OGC. That's correct, and IMHO a major flaw in the OGL. ===== **************************************************************** "Let me be clear: Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs and those debates were spelled out in the [national intelligence] estimate [of october 2002]. They never said there was an imminent threat. " -- CIA director George Tenet, 2/5/2004, Georgetown University **************************************************************** ""Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. . . . The terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country or any other." -- "President" George Bush, 3/17/2003, 48-hour warning to Saddam Hussein **************************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
