Which is what I'm getting at. The World of Billerica is closed content when it is in draft form on my computer too. When I'm just writing about the races that live in my world it is closed content. It isn't until I actually sit down and publish it that it becomes open content. After that there is still a hard-drive full of information that was closed content that I can derive from when creating my game for the "Flip-A-Coin" system.
Bill's Hard-drive + OGL -> D20: Billerica Bill's Hard-drive + Separate Licensing Agreement -> FAC: Billerica Is the same as: Players Handbook + OGL -> SRD Players Handbook + Separate Licensing Agreement -> Kingdom's of Kalamar -----Original Message----- From: Lizard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Publishing under the OGL William Olander wrote: >>>Wrong. The material is now OGC. You can sub-license it to them if you can >>> >get them to agree to such terms but there is nothing that says they *need* >to do so. moreover the material is OGC and cannot be declared "closed". >Finally, and this is the "hooker" if a product uses OGC material they *must* >adhere to the OGL.<< > >There is no way that this is correct. Despite it being Wizard's doing the >lisencing, Ravenloft, Kingdoms of Kalamar, and heck pretty much all of the >D&D stuff instantly becomes OGC. > No, because none of them derive from the SRD. They all derive from the PHB, DMG, MM, etc, which are NOT OGC. I don't know if anyone here is an OOP programmer, but think of this...(This is not in a real language) object opencontent { int i; } object closedcontent { int i; } object myobject::opentcontent { int i,j; } object yourobject::closedcontent { int i,j; } Structurally, "opencontent" and "closedcontent" are identical. However, "myobject", which inherits from opencontent, is open, while 'yourobject', which inherits from closedcontent, is closed. An object (game) which is based on WOTCs closed content is not subject to the OGL, even if the exact words in the closed content are replicated in the SRD. Ravenloft, KoK, etc, are all based on closed content. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
