<<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.>>
Mutants and Masterminds, as an advertisement during product launch not infrequently had multi-page spreads. I think in Dragon, but certainly in other gaming magazines. They had condensed rules and a character. They clearly were promotional materials. And, drum roll, they had the OGL in like 3-4 point font buried in them if memory serves.
Just because you guys haven't seen these promotional inserts doesn't mean that they didn't exist.
By WotC's logic, if they have an extended promotional pullout (as noted above) or ANY other OGL-covered article then they would have covered the entirety of the whole magazine with the OGL. That's not my logic (I disagree with that reading of the OGL, and I believe that you pick the covered work and the OGL extends only to that work).
Lee
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