From: John Ughrin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 06:33 AM
> I thought part of the point of having an SRD in the first place was to
> provide a "clearinghouse" of standardized rules that were
> well-accepted. As
> it stands the SRD has "extensions" added on for Medieval
> Fantasy. I guess I
> actually have several unclear images of what the SRD will be/do. I'm
> wondering as well if we can tolerate multiple extensions for
> the same genre,
> and how exclusive the genres will be to each other, since
> they share that
> list of defining terms.
An interesting interpretation, but it has been my understanding that the
purpose of an "officially labeled" SRD in this case was to serve as a
reference for the d20 System Trademark License, which is the property of
WotC. Making "official" changes to or extensions of the SRD would
effectively change the STL--something that will (and should) only happen if
the owner of the trademark (WotC) wants it to happen.
It WOULD be nice, though, to have an online repository of abstracted OGC
(contributed voluntarily) somewhere like on opengamingfoundation.org. The
materials would look like the SRD, possibly, but not serve the same
specialized legal function.
