On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Clark Peterson wrote: > I'd be surprised if Mongoose even felt you needed to > ask permission to use words that are obviously in the > public domain (and obviously I am only talking about > words and names that are actually in the public > domain).
I agree with you that reasonable people would come to the conclusion that the OGL doesn't allow you to successfully shut public domain words away from use by OGL publishers. But the fact that Mongoose sought fit to include a bunch of public domain words in its PI declaration, though, makes me wonder if Mongoose has a different interpretation of the license, or if they were forced to put those words on the list by their licensor (despite secretly know that it was unenforceable). I mean, if we rule out incompetence, insanity, and spite for the IP declaration, then there must be *some* reason by Mongoose went through these motions, mustn't there? Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
