On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:41:06PM -0400, Steven Trustrum wrote: > Explain, then, how the PHB doesn't have a license in it with so much as a > nod to the SRD since it clearly contains information from the SRD. Simple > answer: because WotC owns the original content and they drafted the license.
Only half right. Reason: "Beacause WotC owns the original content." The fact that they can do this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the fact that they drafted the licence. It has only to do with the fact that the own the original content. > Again, none of the rest of us can do that. Sure you can. Just not with the PHB. But you easily can with your own stuff. > Saying that owning the material doesn't get WotC some great degree of > special treatment with regards to the OGL and d20 STL is a laughable point > to try and make. You laugh at strange things then. I will say this: owning the copyrights to the D&D core books gives WotC a gigantic advantage in the roleplaying business, no matter how the roleplaying business has to go. That is NOT special treatment under the licence, though; that's just because they happen to own the best plum. -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
