> From: Tim Dugger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 05:17 PM
> On 6 Oct 00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled a note about Re:
> [ogf-d20-l] D20 System Trademar:
> What I was referring to was the examples given by some, saying
> that if there were a percentage requirement, that they would just
> use sections of the SRD (verbatim, from the sound of it) to fill up
> the requirement of a certain percentage of OGC material. I am
> talking about a product which is say five pages short of meeting
> such a requirement, and the author does nothing more than reprint
> the chapter on combat in order to satisfy those requirements.
Whoa, nellie! I've been following this thread closely, and I don't think
anyone has said that they are actually going to insert filler material. In
every case it was put forward as a hypothetical example of how "someone"
could get around a percentage requirement in the license.
It seems to me that none of the participants here are really all that
interested in abusing the license. What we ARE interested in is a license
whose terms are clear and solid and that we can profitably do business
under. Hypothesizing potential end-runs around the spirit of the license
should be taken as an attempt to test the strength and clarity of the
license, not as statements of intended approach.
Saying that one "could" use filler text to get around the terms is not the
same as saying that one "would" do so. The real concern, here, is that there
are others out there who would do so, thus weakening the value of the d20
trademark to its beneficiaries.
