Re: [Open_Gaming] ANOTHER REPOST from "Open-Gaming" List

[Russ Taylor]

On 5/4/00 7:27 PM, Ryan S. Dancey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

>NO!
>
>The D20 System Reference document will be released using the Open Gaming
>License >only<.  There are no trademarks in the D20SRD.  Anyone could
>publish anything they wanted based on that document; including a
>complete-in-one-book RPG.

Great!  I've been too busy to follow this list lately, so my perceptions 
must be hoplessly out of date/inaccurate.  I hope that there isn't a lot 
of cloning going on, but I'm happy to see that it's not forbidden.

My own mostly open source program (it's forbidden to make money off of it 
or charge to play, because it was first created at a university) has 
something similar:  copy all you want, but don't try and call your own 
mud ROM (ROM being the title used for the game).  It's worked very well 
for keeping my own version unique, but letting others derive off of it.

-- 
Russ Taylor (http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/)
CMC Tech Support Manager

"To you, Baldrick, the Renaissance is just something that happened to 
other people, isn't it?"

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