--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 4/9/2004 2:36:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Basically, anything that isn't a rule can be closed. > > I think this is unclear. Read the definition of OGC. Note that it doesn't > say that mechanics are merely open, but the entire work the license is > attached to, everything. PI is excepted from this requirement.
No, that's just wrong. Only that which is declared open is open. PI is always closed, whether it's inside a declared open area or not. > PI can include language and ideas. Probably can then include rules and > there verbatim expression. It can, but in the context of the SRD, if there's anything in the rule that connects it to the SRD, which is all open, then it is not owned but derived, and therefore must be open. > So, maybe you could PI a rules system you have patented. Yes, but getting a game rule patented is going to be VERY hard and probably not worth the effort and expense. > Can you PI a rule > under any other circumstances? Maybe. Not one that incorporates any of the concepts of the SRD, not one that makes ANY reference to OGC material. In other words, it would have to exist independently of all other OGC material... a very strange thing to include. You could make a rule that says, "All sneds and greebles gain one fregmier at the beginning of the yurgetmar," and make it closed content, but if the existing OGC doesn't mention sneds, greebles, fregmiers or yurgetmars, it might as well not be in there because it's going to be useless. > It depends on what standards of > "ownership" are required by the OGL. There are none, but I think it would be hard going to show that a particular rule had the requisite level of innovation for a patent. ===== **************************************************************** "Let me be clear: Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs and those debates were spelled out in the [national intelligence] estimate [of october 2002]. They never said there was an imminent threat. " -- CIA director George Tenet, 2/5/2004, Georgetown University **************************************************************** ""Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. . . . The terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country or any other." -- "President" George Bush, 3/17/2003, 48-hour warning to Saddam Hussein **************************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
