You said: "they probably won't be allowing any more material to be produced using it."
Not allowing material to be produced using the gentleperson's agreement is a FAR CRY from what that email actually said. You should be a bit more careful. What they said is they dont intend to release more stuff under the agreement, NOT that we cant produce stuff with it. HUGE DIFFERENCE. Clark --- Bert Knabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this appears twice. I sent it once with the > wrong email > address. > > On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 06:27 PM, Clark > Peterson wrote: > > >>>> You might want to be careful of using the > >>>> 'gentleman's agreement'. I've > >>>> seen a private email that says it was a stopgap > >>>> measure and they > >>>> probably won't be allowing any more material to > >> be > >>>> produced using it. > > > > Who posted this initial gossip and are they going > to > > come back in and back any of this up? > > > > Clark > > I posted. Sorry to create such a firestorm. > > First, I did not say there would definitely be > nothing else under the > Gentleman's Agreement, I said check before using it. > > I saw it in an email forwarded to the discussion > list of an ezine I > work on that is going to do a D20/OGL issue. The > editor was > communicating with people at WotC to make sure he > understood what we > could and could not do. Here is the pertinent > portion of the email from > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >>> 4) (a) All material that has been posted but is > not yet officially > >>> released is covered under what we call "The > Gentleman's Agreement" > >>> This > >>> agreement says that you may use that material > but that you recognize > >>> that > >>> it may change when it is made official. If that > occurs you agree to > >>> update > >>> any future printings of your product. As a > magazine this obviously > >>> does > >>> not really apply. (b) Only that material that is > available at > >>> www.opengamingfoundation.org in the SRD section, > may be treated in > >>> this manner. > >> > >> OK, great, thanks. > > > > Just a little more info on this, since I'm also > the SRD guy. I do not > > believe we have any plans to allow anything else > under the "gentleman's > > agreement". That was a stopgap measure taken when > we fell behind on > > updating the SRD. Now that updates are going > again nothing is usable > > until it is officially entered into the SRD. The > remainder of the > > unofficial material will be made into official SRD > content, then we > > will > > decide what next to make open. > > > Note that he does not say there definitely will not > be anything allowed > under the "gentleman's agreement", he said he does > not believe anything > else will be allowed. So before you spend a great > deal of time working > on something, ask. a 10 second email isn't going to > kill anyone. > > Bert Knabe > > > -- > Always keep in mind that ignorance is curable. > Stupidity, however, is a > lifelong problem. > > > > -- > "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. > The strongest > reason for the people to retain the right to keep > and bear arms is, as > a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny > in government" > > -- Thomas Jefferson, 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, > 334 > > _______________________________________________ > Ogf-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l ===== http://www.necromancergames.com "3rd Edition Rules, 1st Edition Feel" __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
