--- "Ryan S. Dancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 13:50, Reginald Cablayan wrote: > > > But would such rules MUST be declared OGC, Ryan? A lot of people here > > believed the OGL (if applied to a Body of Work or Product) forces game > > designer to declare any and all rules mechanics, regardless of source, to > be > > Open Game Content. > > They would clearly be wrong. The OGL only requires you to identify > material as OGC that is derivative of OGC. If the material in question > is not a derivative of OGC, then the OGL does not have any power over > it. > > This is a very settled question. There are games from many publishers, > including WotC, that contain a mix of OGC and non-OGC rules (Monster > Manual II, for example).
I think WotC is something of a special case when it comes to using the SRD. They have the right to derive from WotC products (such as MM1) that other people don't necessarily have. I would be curious what the closed rules look like in non-wotc products. I can imagine what the T20 ship construction rules look like. ===== **************************************************************** "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
