On Wed, 09 May 2001, you wrote:
[big snip]
>In both cases if you were to do a copy
> of the descriptions of strength or gold dragon then you'd be liable for
> copyright infringement since you reproduced copywritten material (the
> descriptions with the name not the name itself). The other issue for what
> you can do or not do is also based on the license you attach to the MUD. If
> you use the d20 SRD and OGL then you have to abide by those restrictions
> beyond the lettter of the law since using the license is considered entering
> into a contract that means you agree to follow the terms of the
> contract/license.
>
Yes, that was my reason for wanting to release under the OGL licence.
Since I want to be able to copy those stats that I would otherwise not be
able to do. But under the OGL and SRD I can (well at least what is in
the SRD at the moment)
I fully understand that I would have to abide by the OGL licence compleaty.
as I said in my reply to John Arras who wrote
On Tue, 08 May 2001,
> I have a concern about this idea. I am interested in this
> as it mainly pertains to MUDs. One of the ways that MUDs
> grow is by people playing a game, getting sick of it,
> then starting their own to make a "better version" of
> the previous game. Now, in the past, people could do
> this, and the original owners might get upset, but
> they couldn't do anything about it. I don't like the
> idea of getting legal issues involved in the creation
> of "content" for MUDs. I think people will see this setup
> and claim that every little thing they make for their game
> is their own incredibly special "product identity".
Regardless of whether it was released under the OGL or not there would
still be the same legal issues. If I could legally reuse "XYZ" whenthe
mud was not under OGL, but couldnt because I had made XYZ PI when
I released under OGL then people would simply not reuse under OGL
and thus be able to use XYZ again.
So the OGL licence does not restrict the legal reuse of the mud in any
way, it would just provide a means for people to reuse more of the mud
if they wished to do so under the OGL.
However my only reason for using OGL and not GPL is that I have to
since I will be using the SRD and freeport setting, and dont wish to
break any laws. By using OGL I can simply copy word for word out
of the SRD, which is one thing I WOULD NOT be able to do without OGL.
bb.
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