Where are the "legal minefields"? If it's in the SRD, it's open. If its not, its not. As long as you can read, you can easily determine whats open wrt WOTC.
WOTC left nothing to chance as to what is open or not. The minefields come with 3rd parties: "That which is derived is, that which is not isn't." --- John Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Ryan S. Dancey wrote: > > WotC is giving you a lot of free stuff. They're just not giving you all > > the stuff they could. And suggesting that giving you part of something > > is worse than giving you all of something seems silly to me. > > From my point of view, I could really do without getting the > "free" gift of monsters which require that I write descriptions that > do a legal dance around saying what they are -- or descriptions which > I intentionally make different but then have to retrofit onto their > existing stats. > > Personally, I have come around to the conclusion that I would > much rather work with a license where there are just a few things that > are open (i.e. Action system, OOGL, etc.) but they are truly open -- > as opposed to d20 where all of the open things appear to be legal > minefields of potential violations. WotC OGL / d20 seems like a fine > thing for people who want to make money selling their D&D supplements, > but since I am not a D&D fan I will be looking elsewhere. > > This is not just about the mind flayer, of course. That is > simply that cap after a year of legal issues discussed here. I think > the kicker for me was when Faustus emailed me that he had a huge > library of Open Game Content in editable format available, but that > he couldn't share that *open* content for legal and other reasons. > > - John > > > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l ===== Jasyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
