On Sat, 20 May 2000, Ryan S. Dancey wrote:
> From: Otto Hammersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To handle the problem of people using Open Game Content to produce closed
> game software - taking all the fruits of the Open Gaming evironment and
> putting them in a format that can't feed back into the joint development
> effort.
>
> Note that the GPL is a >software< copyright license. Products like the Doom
> and Quake engine which have been released using the GPL have not included
> GPL'd versions of artwork, levels, or anything else proprietary to the id
> IP. Stallman is cool with that (I asked him) and feels that the only
> important thing is that the code be free, not the story elements.
>
This make the assumption that you don't get a legal type with the idea
that "all computer files are software", like my day job's legal staff.
The context for this some what supprising statement was they had asked for
"all software concering <client/failed project>." When asked what
they meant I got the "in the eyes of the law all computer files are
computer software" thing tossed back at me. Note: I had assumed that we
would be able to do the Doom/Quake thing, however the wording of your
change tended to scare me, given that my own landshark claims that all
computer files are software. I think he needs to put down the crack
pipe and step away from the keyboard, but he _is_ the lawyer in the
company, not me. This does not stop from being wrong, of course.
> > Has a lawyer looked at any incompatabilities between the GPL and the
> > OGL?
>
> Not yet.
>
Please get one to do so and one the knows about the computer industry, and
not a TelCo legal staff member....
> > The GPL has some interesting clauses about no futher
> > restrictions... which may prevent this.
>
> The OGL doesn't intersect with the rights administered by the GPL.
>
Assuming "my" legal staff is not on rat dope, with this change it would
for non-paper versions of OGL games.
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