--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 4/10/2004 10:13:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > What I'm saying is ... any rules that > > you build that are made to interlock with [OGC] are going to have to use > > OGC ideas from that system, and as a result, they're going to have to be > > OGC under the license. > > Actually, what would make most sense is if the linkage points had to be OGC. > Those are the parts where somebody else may potentially own some IP. > > If I have a rule: "Take your ability scores, skills, feats, and powers and > use them as inspiration write a story detailing your childhood, your teenage > years, and your young adult life." Then the only thing I'm leveraging is > the phrase "ability scores, skills, feats, and powers", which is a linkage > point.
This rule, by reason of mentioning items of OGC, is derivative of OGC, and therefore must itself be OGC. You can own the IP, but it must also be OGC if you use the OGL to publish it. I'm not saying that this is what people DO but that's how the license is written, as I see it. ===== **************************************************************** "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! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
