On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:36:55PM -0400, Steven Trustrum wrote: > So you don't see how they, as the holders of the original copyright, wrote > the license in such a way as to keep their corebooks from being covered by > it? The license specifically restricts us all to the OPENED content in the > SRD instead of referencing the corebooks themselves, whereas the rest of us > use the OGL to point to our products and not our own SRDs. That's a rather > advantageous point to say that their being the drafter of the license had > nothing to do with.
You could do exactly the same thing. Write your core book, put it out non-OGL. Also put out a SRD that's missing some things (like character advancement tables), and make that OGL. Nothing stopping you. Yeah, sure, they wrote the licence to do what they wanted to do. But the licence itsef does not give them any special advantage. What gives them a special position is that they own the copyright to D&D, and D&D is the biggest RPG. This was true for TSR back in the 1990s-- even before the OGL had been written. -Rob -- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
