On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Alec A. Burkhardt wrote:
> through the use of trademarks. In fact, the people in your example #2
> don't exist since you need some product that must be associated with your
> trademark and someone not adding anything new has no closed content in
It seems we are failing to communiate here. The people who
"#2 used open content and didn't contribute anything new but
want extra protection for a trademark" have a product with
100 pages. 10 pages are directly from the D20SRD and marked
in grey. 90 pages are closed content containing their
trademarked hero. Nothing new is contributed to open gaming.
I have no interest in their 90 pages but why should the OGL
be burdened with a clause that provides them extra protection?
> I also don't believe the people in #1 really exist either, since you seem
> to be implying that the OGL will/should allow people to create products
> for their favorite settings even if those settings are not open product.
The people in #1 contributed a swamp setting. The people in #2
start trademarking their new things in the swamp setting. The
people in #1 would like to build on that but can't and regret
contributing anything to the OGL at all. The people in #1 decide
decide to go with GFDL next time and see what happens there.
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