To put it short, it would be a lot easier if each company had a website containing only the open content from their book so that other could look at it, just like it has to be done by people who want to use things from Wizards : you look in the SRD, not in the PH (or any other book).
However, if Company X created its "own" SRD, could it put everything that's OGC in its books in it, or would they have to take out what's part of the SRD (Wizards')? I suppose the answer would be the same for any other OGC from Company A that company X decides to use? Franck -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] De la part de Clark Peterson Envoy� : jeudi 22 ao�t 2002 1:47 � : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [Ogf-l] Publishing under the OGL Think about it like this: Things fall into two categories: 1. Stuff that MUST be OGC because it is derived from other OGC (such as the SRD); and 2. everything else (meaning anything you create not derived from OGC). Stuff that is #1 MUST be OGC and you cannot license it becasue you must use it under the license and the license does not allow you to add terms to use of OGC. Technically, you still "own" stuff that is #1, but you created it under a license and thus must grant the same rights to it as you had to its source material. Now we get to #2. Stuff that is #2 is not automatically OGC. You can make it OGC if you designate it as OGC. Thats your choice. If you make it OGC then anyone can use it under the license. But it is still your content and you can do whatever the heck you want with it. You can even designate it as PI if you want. That means that people cant use it without your permission. The SRD is OGC. If I make some new content and designate that as OGC then there is another source of OGC. If you create content derived from the SRD or from other open content--such as stuff that I designate as OGC--then your stuff by definition must be #1 above. Clark _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
