On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:
> Ugh! I would hate to see OGL cluttered up by reference to specific licenses
> or games. No one is pretending it was not built specifically to facilitate
> the D20 STL; but if it is kept as clean as possible and treats all
> companies -- big and small -- as identically as possible, we'll end up with
> a document that may be far more valuable than its original purpose.
I agree that would be nice to have. I guess we need to see some
more concrete statements before choosing the lesser of two evils.
> "Felt", not "feels". There's no date on this, but it looks to be at least
> four years old. How they feel today is inevitably colored by what they
> experienced then. So it is even possible that, in some tenuous fashion, the
> link you posted may very well be part of the reason for the clause Ryan is
> proposing today.
>From another file in that archive, it looks like the Palladium
lawsuit started 1992 and was thrown out on Dec 14th 1992. What
you say may be very true. I just wanted to point out it doesn't
take a moralless troll to exercise their rights under the trademark
and copyright laws.
Cheers,
--Kal
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