> > According to Wizards, this is not an option. All OGC portions must be > > clearly marked and in 'plain English.' They are a little lax on the term, > > if you've ever seen PCGen data files. Basically, they need to be readable > > by someone without programming experience. It boils down to text files and > > documentation on syntax. > > Ok, where is the plain english clause in the OGL? > With the d20 licence, I understand that they can change things on a whim, but > I see no mention of a plain english requirement in the OGL.
Part of their interpretation of 'clearly marking OGC.' Here's my _color_ comment on that: if a Wizards buisness manager can't look at the file in a text editor and 1) recognize their OGC 2) see it clearly marked as OGC (opening it up and seeing it) and 3) clearly see how it came from the SRD or understand what the syntax is saying if it isn't normal English (this last one is best done with good documentation - that went far with them durring our talks) then it isn't clearly marked from their perspective. Durring our converstaion with AV at GenCon, we specifically coverd the specifying portions of binary. Because of intertwining of computer code between OGC and PI or closed content, they feel that a binary has to be all or nothing OGC. Feel free to open discussions with them over it. It will go a long way into keeping you from a C&D that some electronic publishers got last year, and a potential lawsuit. Hence our un-hardcoding a lot of functions into plain text files (our whole new GameMode system.) The fact that we were able to do so as fast as we did after we found out their interpretation surprised them. Of course, we were going for d20stl compliance, so we doing a lot more than just OGL compliance. For the d20stl, we've turned the actual code into a vanilla interpretor, and OGL data sets with all the info. It was also a good excersize: PCGen is a better program for it. Lot more powerful than it was. Well, flexible, but I see that as the same thing. Andrew McDougall a.k.a. Tir Gwaith _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
