On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Johnny Wilson wrote:

> Dear Damian and members of the list,
>
> Please note that the inclusion of the Open Game License on page 17 of
> "Dragon Presents d20 system Special" was not intended to serve as the
> copyright for materials within the magazine. That claim is made on page 6
> in the legal indicia that is always present in our publications: "No part
> of this magazine may be reproduced (except for review purposes) without
> the prior written permission of the publisher." We printed the Open Game
> License to provide a template for readers who have not yet downloaded this
> document or the System Reference Document.

Thank you for the clarification.  That was my initial thought.  The
question then is why OGC was identified in articles, since actually none
of the articles contain OGC.  Some of the material in the articlse may be
OGC when it appears in the appropriate product released under the OGL, but
as it appears in the Dragon Annual, none of the material is OGC.  Yet the
"OGC Tracker" boxes explicitly claim certain material is OGC.  This is
where the mistake was made.  Rather than claim that some material in the
articles was OGC (as done in the "OGC Tracker" boxes), it would have been
better to direct people to the appropriate product.

alec



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