Now you're just making this stuff up. The OGL while certainly owned by Wizards does not have any provisions in it that allow Wizards to get around it. The D20STL does but that is a trademark and very different.
Example: I make my very own game. "Flip-a-Coin"(TM). I publish it as is. Yay me! I then take "Flip-A-Coin" and release it under the OGL because I like to share my success with the world. I then license a 3rd party to create a world compatible with the original "Flip-A-Coin" game. By the logic you're using, it would be impossible because "I'm not wizards". >From the view of the OGL there is no distinction between rules and fluff.. it's OGC and PI. Since I released the whole of "Flip-A-coin" as OGC then even if its derivative of the Non-OGC "Flip-A-Coin" it still HAS to have an OGL attached. From the perspective of the OGL there is no difference between a Racial description and an entire game. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Dugger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Publishing under the OGL On 21 Aug 02, Infinite scribbled a note about Re: [Ogf-l] Publishing under the OG: > Right. But what i am trying to point out though is that the parts of D&D > that were opened as OGC are being privately licensed to other parties with > no OGC attached. Why can't we do the same thing? We are all using the same > license right? We are all playing by the same rules? > No, we aren't all playing by the same rules. WOTC owns the rights and is letting you use it for free. Kenzer gets to use it and more (and their source for what they get to use is NOT the SRD, they get to use the PHB itself), but they have to pay for it in some manner... I am not sure that I can explain it any better than I have already tried. I know that I understand it, but trying to explain it is a little more difficult... > Perhaps if you could let me know if there is a difference between the > stuff I release as OGC and the stuff that wizards releases as OGC? That one is simple, your stuff is derivative.... Now, I do want to point out that if you do NOT release your whole setting as OGC, and keep all but what is required as PI, then you could take and sell that setting to another company if you want, or license it out to others. I am also trying to point out that Anthony's answer to that question was based around the example given, which placed the entire work under the OGL, not just the crunchy bits. there is a MAJOR difference when you do that.... **TANSTAAFL** Rasyr (Tim Dugger) System Editor Iron Crown Enterprises E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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
