On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Brad Thompson wrote:
> > Jaimi McEntire
> >
> > Why? Already they are explicitely copyright - does giving them
> > PI status gain some other advantage?
>
> Yes. Your copyright won't matter because your code will be OGC. As Ryan
> pointed out to me, a work is whatever you represent as a bundle to the user.
> If you distribute OGC with software then the bundle is all covered by the
> OGL. The OGL has two categories of intellectual property - Product
> Identity, and Open Gaming Content. Everything covered by the OGL must be in
> one of those two categories. Since software isn't one of the things that
> can be PI, it must be OGC.
Ah, no. Depends on what the software does. My idea of software that
_generates_ OGC, while is self being GPL (a whole other batch of fish) was
well received by Ryan. The software is a tool for generating OGC, much
like a word processor or, for that matter a pair of dice. Just because I
used Word-Perfect for Linux to type up some OGC, this does not make WP4L
OGC. JavaDM and PerlDM will have the options to generate the tables
they use, making it available for normal human/DM use. My k-rad kwel
al-go-rythems, on the other hand, are not OGC. Their output is.
Just like you can use GPL tools to make non-GPL products, you can use
non-OGL tools to make OGC products.
Do I need to re-post that whole thread again?
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