On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Nephew wrote:
> > may be a little sensitive about this because of Kal's
> > prior rants about "forcing content open."
>
> If we're talking about *PI* -- then I agree, of course. But I'm talking
> about Open Game Content, that which is explicitly allowed to be duplicated
> under the terms of the OGL.
That discussion occurred in June. There was only open and closed.
I said if someone took open content and derived something from it
then subsequently designated it as closed, I would feel within my
rights to use that as open content. From
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00641.html
>Kal-
>
>I see this dialogue going nowhere.
>
>Here is the bottom line:
>
>If something is open content either from the d20 SRD
>or because some other publisher designated it as open,
>then use it. No once can close content that is in the
>SRD and if they tried to you can still use it as long
>as it is a part of the SRD. But, if something is
>derived from the SRD and is designated closed by a
>subsequent author and you then disregard that--EVEN IF
>YOU DISAGREE WITH HIS OR HER DESIGNATION--and use it
>anyway you are an a$$.
>
>Your comment...
>
>"If someone publishes some super hero rules that are
>clearly modifcations then I will feel free to use them
>in my super hero product and not wait around for WotC
>to do something about it. To reiterate some of my
>previous points, I may have intented to make those
>natural modifications too but wasn't first to market
>and I don't want people fencing off open content that
>I want to use."
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