Hello woodelf
>From The Desk of Wolfy at Money Talks Enterprises,
On 24-Sep-01, you wrote:
> oh, i dunno. i'd say it *is* fairly mysterious. between the
> question of whether the things enumerated under the definitions of
> OGC and PI are exemplary or exhaustive, and the fact that it never
> mentions in the license that you are allowed (under the license) to
> have content that is neither PI nor OGC, not to mention that we don't
> have a convenient term for the material (though simply "closed" is
> pretty accurate), it's pretty "mysterious" if you ask me. that is,
> it's quite easy for someone, even with legal training (yourself,
> frex), to read the WotC OGL, and come to apparently mistaken
> conclusions (such as that game rules must be OGC) about its meaning
> (assuming Dancey's pronouncements of how to interpret it, and the
> FAQ, represent formal legal opinion being relayed to us).
As a one-time confused novice, now pulling a game together from the SRD and
original material and PI, I totally agree with you. It's the most
confusing license I ever had to figure out. I think I have it "down" now,
but it took a lot of "extra information" and a gentleman's agreement to
make it all make sense, finally.
Now I still run into a few "grey" areas(I have a _lot_ of non-OGC material
to convert), but I don't sweat it as much. If it's dark grey I include
with OGC, if it's light grey I try to rewrite a little differently and keep
it separate.
Pretty simple, now, but at first, nothing was entirely clear, and I lost a
month or so of development time, when I did not know that the entire SRD
could be used.....
Mutazoids, The Rebellion is on!
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Wolfy
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