In a message dated 10/6/00 6:24:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> Trying to define "relevant" could take so long as to kill this entire
>> project. That is too arbitrary a standard.
>>
>relevant = OGC necessary for the product. It does not include
>quoting or paraphrasing the d20 SRD in an attempt to meet a
>content percentage guideline.
>
>This defines it by saying what it does not cover, namely using the
>SRD as filler.....
>
By your definition, if I take the SRD and expand it out, not include new
rules but put it in complete sentences to explain things, and put it out as a
book unto itself, it wouldn't qualify. Which means there wouldn't *ever* be
an alternate Player's handbook, which Ryan even said he'd be interested in
seeing someone's attempt.
>> >Drat sneaky people--if they didn't try and twist out of contracts,
contracts
>> >wouldn't be so complex!
>> >
>> And while I know you didn't name me as a sneaky person, my objections to
>> these 'ideas' puts me firmly in the camp you call sneaky...and I'm not.
I'm
>> as blunt as a freight train. If you want d20 to succeed, you need to keep
in
>> mind that *some* people need to actually make a profit and protect their
>> IP...or this will just turn into a license pursued by net-people and those
>> that haunt Kinko's in the wee hours of the evening.
>
>hehehe..... My whole point (since it was my original message
>being quoted, and responded to, that you are responding to) was
>that there had to be a way in which to make everybody happy. A
>percentage requirement is not very good as it will otherwise kill
>some products that meet all other qualifiers for the d20 logo.
>
The only kind of standards that can be put into a contract like this are hard
and fat, easy to define ones. Using terms like "relevent" or "useful" are so
vague as to be unenforceable. And that would kill other products that are
even more appropriate for d20, but because it didn't include "relevent" or
"useful" content, it wouldn't qualify.
>> >> With relevent being defined as OGC that is used specifically to use
>> >> the product with other d20 games.
>> >
>> >Don't forget that a good portion of d20 games should stand on their
>own,
>> >with
>> >*only* the PHB or D20SRD as a reference.
>> >
>> But wait! You folks don't want me to be able to reprint the D20SRD,
>thus
>> shooting yourself in the foot at the starting line!
>>
>That is silly thinking isn't it.....
Not when you start talking about terms of limitation in a license or a
contract...
-Paul @ CFE/NSG
www.sneaky-leech-bastard.com
