From: "Lizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Can someone (Ryan?) please address this issue and give us a clear
> answer, to wit:Can 'product identity' be made 'open' under the OGL?
> This is false. According to the current draft OGL, "names
> and descriptions of characters, spells, enchantments, [...]" are
> part of "Product Identity" (defined in point #1) which can never be
> used in any other OGL work (according to point #7).
>
> (cf. http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/ogl.html )
The Draft License says in part:
"(e) "Product Identity" means [ list of things it could mean deleted ]
clearly identified as Product Identity by the owner of the Product
Identity;"
So if you define something as Open, and you don't exclude it specifically by
saying that some subset of that Open material is instead Product Identity,
then the whole section is Open.
Ryan
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