On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Scott wrote:
> <<
> Designation of Open Game Content: All text contained within this module,
> excluding any text on the front or back cover, is hereby designated as
> Open Game Content, subject to the Product Identity designation below.
> >>
> <<
> 3. All artwork, illustration, graphic design, maps, and cartography;
> >>
>
> My opinion is #3 is unnecessary, because you specified only that all
> text is Open Content. Nothing about artwork or illustrations.
It's possible that text could be contained within the items mentioned,
especially maps & cartography. And given the ability of people to make
mistakes ("it says all text is OGC, there's text in this map so the map
must be OGC") this doesn't seem like a bad way to handle the problem.
The other option would be to include an explicit statement that these
items aren't OGC. Just take Clark's number 3, move it outside of the PI
designation and reword it something like "All artwork, illustrations,
graphic designs, maps & cartography are not OGC." Essentially it's part
of identifying what is OGC, just doing so by pointing to things that
aren't. (Which in this case at least I'd say passes the clear
identification test since we're starting with a general inclusive
statement about what is OGC.)
But in either case, I think some statement that makes it explicitly clear
that the things mentioned aren't OGC and can't simply be re-used is
probably a good thing to include.
alec
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