No, it's decidedly less viral than the GPL. Under the OGL you can take advantage of OGL'd material yet never open a word of your own while still producing a viable original work. With the GPL all of your code must be opened. You cannot use the GPL without contributing something new.Sure you can.
You can either use the LGPL, or construct your program so that what you want to close (the level files of a video game) are distinctly seperate from the GPL'd program you've got. The OGL just makes this easier.
The GPL is, IMO, slightly less viral than the OGL, as it requires you to use a license with similiar terms, but not the GPL itself.
IMNSHO, the license should be revised so that all game rules have to be OGC. But, even if we were using the GPL, someone could theoretically write a seperate program that their GPL'd code sends late-bound results to. (A good example would be an internal client/server setup which is so common in GPL-land, with the server being GPL'd and the client being non-GPL. Of course, this is more trouble than its normally worth... ) This would be equivalent to the loophole that the OGL allows--if you make something wholly new, you don't have to open it.
DM
_______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
