>From: "Doug Meerschaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>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...
That's the rumor - but remember, a FAN work is of little or no use to OGL
developers. ::frown::
>>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.
And since you are giving it away for free and (I presume) only in a
web-based version it would be very cheap to correct.
>Of course, that could also lead to unneccesessary forking...
It is GOING-TO-HAPPEN, nothing YOU, I, nor ANYBODY ELSE can do will stop it.
So don't let it prevent you from making a cool product available to OGL
developers.
>>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. :)
As long as the forms YOU USE are not COPIES of the ones in a copyright
(non-OGL) publication you are probably fine, but IANAL.
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>
>LOL... oh, dear me... now I have to update *my* sig file.
Heh Heh. I don't use a SIG file - I prefer to type a new one every time.
Faust
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