-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Dragon is licensing directly from WotC, if I'm not mistaken. > > Dragon doesn't need to follow the OGL or d20 STL at all > > because it is getting direct permission from WotC to use its > > open content AND PI. > > Dragon has a number of advertisements and articles historically > that use the OGL. Magazines are themselves works which contain > other works. So technically the magazine as a whole may not be > a "work covered by the license" but individual ads and articles > may be, by themselves, "works covered by the license". > However, WotC FAQ says if you distribute things like this > (bundled somehow) then the OGL extends to the bundle instead of > the covered work (I do NOT agree with this interpretation). > But if this is true, by their own logic, then every Dragon with > a single OGL'd ad (Mutants and Masterminds did this a lot), > etc. makes the whole Dragon a "work covered by the license" and > potentially makes everything in the "work covered by the > license" OGC if it hasn't been declared as PI. Clearly, this > is not what is happening. Only individual articles are "works > covered by the license", not the entire magazine, and WotC's > FAQ file question on bundled goods is full of crap. > > They were foolish to make that comment about the way bundled > items and collections work and then have individual OGL > covered ads in their magazine.
With all due respect, an advertisment is not an actual product, merely a method to promote and expose their product to potential customers. The publisher of the Covered Product have every right to advertise their OGL-based product, just as long they follow section 7 of the OGL, anywhere. And DRAGON did not have to be under the OGL for the sole purpose of offering advertisement space for OGL-based publishers. If that is the case, then the entire OGL and d20 would be worthless, and that's not what Ryan Dancey intended. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
