RE: [Ogf-l] Interesting comments about Creative Commons license

[Steven Trustrum]

Yes, that includes rules so it requires the OGL but it’s hardly an advertisement – it’s a preview. Promotional material is not the same as an advertisement. The way you were talking in earlier emails you were speaking as though a typical ad required the OGL’s inclusion. This is something entirely different. I still don’t know if this would count in the way you’re representing it, though, because it’s still not a complete presentation that is operational as a commercial product. It doesn’t, for example, list the preview in Section 15, nor is there a declaration of OGC and PI (that I saw.) It’s entirely non-functional.   Regards,   Steven Trustrum      President For Life (or until the money runs out) Misfit Studios   [EMAIL PROTECTED] 416-857-2433   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:33 AM To: ogf-l@mail.opengamingfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Interesting comments about Creative Commons license   In a message dated 8/23/2005 9:36:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: <<How is an ad covered by the license? If it were, would the ad not be required to have a minimum of 5% OGC? Would it not require the OGL? The declaration of OGC and PI? An ad is a REPRESENTATION of the product – it is not the product. If the product is not compliant that is because of the product itself, not the ad (and the other way around.) >> There is NOTHING in the OGL about 5% OGC for coverage.  That's the d20 STL.  And I said Mutants and Masterminds, which is not d20 STL-covered. The extended promotional sample was in one or two magazines.  I thought Dragon (but I can't promise that).  It was probably in Game Trade magazine. http://64.17.155.164/files/mnm_preview.pdf That preview link is what I remember. Now, part of my point may be undermined if this wasn't in Dragon.  It wouldn't be undermined in principle if SOMETHING that was OGL-covered was printed in Dragon without an overt attempt to cover the entire magazine with the license (by WotC's logic that the inclusion of one OGL'd item in a bundle requires that the entire item be covered). I may be wrong, but I think I've seen other OGL'd ad inserts before too, though I could be hallucinating that.  The promotional insert above was definitely in gaming magazines, however. Lee

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