Re: [Open_Gaming] Some license updates

[Doug Meerschaert]

> >So the bottom line is: NO. It is not "perfectly within [your]
> >rights to produce a [product] compatible with Snakemen of Blablabla
> >module and say so."
>
> You hold this opinion.  Others have written and hold a very
> different opinion.

Clark has identified himself as a lawyer.  None of the rest of us have
done so.  His law degree gives his opinion about the law more weight
than the rest of us who don't have one.


> If you are afraid a big company with a valuable trademark
> is going to sue you into oblivion, what does this clause
> get you?  You would ask for permission now but wouldn't
> without the clause?

I suspect this bit of confusion is caused by lack of communication, or
knowledge as to what exacly a "trademark" is.

Is the word dungeon, as used in the phrase, "lock him in the dungeon",
the trademarked name of WotC's magazine (in a legal sense)?  If so,
we're screwed.  If not, we're great.


DM

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