>From: "Faustus von Goethe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>If the parts from the "STAR WARS" system are not released under the OGL,
>then you have just created a "fan" work. You can release it under the
>"online use policy", but not under the OGL.
(slaps forehead) Hey, he's right! I'm not selling the thing, just pretty
much giving it away... and the online use policy is still in effect... AND
the policy's only supposed to be interim, anyway...
>Alternately, you could "reverse engineer" the parts of the "STAR WARS"
>system that you used, reducing them to their essential rules elements, then
>expressing those rules in your own words. THEN you could release under the
>OGL, BUT if you do this you are abandoning the "safe harbor" that the OGL
>provides - ie: WotC could review your document and then claim that you
>violated their copyright for the copyright STAR WARS stuff.
WotC doesn't have the copyright on the STAR WARS RPG--Lucasarts Ltd does.
Of course, the OGL also provides for a 30-day "cure" period, in which I
would have to repair the parts they think are over the line.
Of course, that could also lead to unneccesessary forking...
>If the "STAR WARS stuff is ALL your own words AND does NOT contain
>WotC/STAR
>WARS standard methods of expressing statistics (ie: standard stats blocks),
>or WotC trademarks, then you would *probably* be safe ...
Oh, no... the "forms" are rather standard. :)
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LOL... oh, dear me... now I have to update *my* sig file.
DM
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