But you can publish game mechanics in a volume that contains an OGL'd work where the game mechanics aren't released as OGC.[snip]
Consider that a magazine or other fanzines may have a single advertisement or article that is a covered work. The magazine as a whole is not a covered work. If the magazine has 10 articles, and only article 10 is a covered work, then the mechanics in articles 1 through 9 are not OGC, and they are not PI, since they do not appear in a covered work.
Note also that it doesn't say that mechanics are OGC. It says mechanics (in the covered work, since this license only applies to the work it covers)
Have we ever actually definitively answered the question of what constitutes "a work" for purposes of the WotC OGL? While it of course makes more sense for it to be defined as you say, so that aggregate works like magazines don't have to abide by the license restrictions /in toto/, is there any evidence of this in the license itself? Or any evidence against it?
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