Nival is the company that produces the Etherlords video game. go to www.etherlords.com for more info.
The game rocks. Rob. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin L. Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:56 PM Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] Working with Product Identity > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Baxter > > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:07 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Ogf-l] Working with Product Identity > > > > I've been mulling over the possible quandaries I might have with my > > Etherlords d20 site, and using Nival PI without treading the fine line of > > inadvertently releasing non-OGL material. > > Query: Nival? I don't understand the term. > > > > I am going to combat this in three ways. > > > > 1. encapsulate open content in a format that sits along with descriptive > > text that uses the PI. This will either be as a sidebar or as content > > highlighted to physically seperate it as distinct from the descriptive PI > > elements. > > Then there's really no reason to declare anything as PI. There are three > kinds of content in an OGL work: Open Game Content, which is clearly > delineated and licensed for anyone to use under the OGL; regular content, > which is not licensed for use under the OGL; and Product Identity, which is > material which is NOT licensed for use under the OGL, even if it happens to > appear within a section that is otherwise marked as Open Game Content. If > the terms will never appear within the open content, there is no need to > declare them PI (and some interesting legal theory that says they CANNOT be > PI, because the license only has meaning within the open game sections -- > did I get close that time, Alec?). > > Martin L. Shoemaker > > Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting, Software Design and UML Training > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.MartinLShoemaker.com > http://www.UMLBootCamp.com > > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
