This message is, on its own, indicative of the types of gross generalities from
Mongoose that people have been complaining about on this board.  "If you use
the _rules_ not the text"?  What is that supposed to mean?  'Text' is printered
letters, numbers, punctuation and other characters on the page, and all of the
non-graphics content (rules, PI, descriptive text, the license, etc) is
literally 'text'.

<rant>You obviously have a clear idea of what you want to release as OGL and
what you do not.  However, my psychocom provided terminated my direct
connection to your brainwaves because of my 'poor attitude'.  Now I can only
guess what Mongoose has and has not released through their products.  Perhaps
you (as a company) could, with a minimal amount of additional 'text', indicate
what *IS* OGC, and everybody would be happy.  Except perhaps your layout
designer who will have to add a couple lines of text to the footer in Quark or
whatever you use for page layout and prepress.</rant>

Sorry, Matt, but I feel a little better...

-Mike

--- Matthew Sprange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > responsibility of coming up with an OGC declaration that is clear enough
> that
> > I can label OGC in my products appropriately if I draw from their
> resources.
> 
> We keep going over and over on this.
> 
> If you use the _rules_ not the text, as I have said quite a few times now,
> you _cannot_ be in violation.  Whatever the source.  This is not
> convoluted - it is the most basic application of OGC that you can get, other
> than 100% useage (text and all).
> 
> If (and this is highly unlikely) we were ever to do a set of rules that
> bolted onto the d20 System and yet remained closed, you can be sure we would
> identify it as such in a manner that left no doubt. . .
> 
> > declaration.  The onus is on Mongoose to come up with an OGL compliant OGC
> > declaration.
> 
> See above.  Follow those guidelines and you cannot go wrong.  At all.  Yes,
> it means there is more work involved, as you have to rewrite everything but,
> to be frank, that is neither here nor there.
> 
> Matthew
> 
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