Re: [Ogf-l] Dungeon Master in OGC

2003-06-14 Thread Tim Dugger 
On 14 Jun 2003 DarkTouch scribbled a note about Re: [Ogf-l] Dungeon Master in OGC:

 You're making the mistake of looking at WotC in terms of a faceless
 monolith. Try breaking it down into individuals and it might make more
 sense to you.

Wrong! WOTC, as a company, released the SRD under the OGL, not as a 
group of individuals, each releasing various pieces of it.

As a company, it has to deal with the consequences of the actions of 
the employee who did this, and it was not actually a single employee 
who may or may not be at fault.

Remember, WOTC has a process through which the sections of the SRD 
were reviewed (which included going past the legal department as 
well).  Either Dungeon Master was meant to be released, or a whole 
bunch of people made the exact same mistake. The end result is the 
same, it has been released as OGC and now cannot be pulled back.

Any attempts to do so will provide lots of fuel for the conspiracy 
theorists, as well as cause major backlashes among the companies 
producing d20 material. 

It would amount to saying that the OGL is not worth the paper it 
isn't printed on. That WOTC will do whatever pleases, no matter what 
licenses or such may be in effect. Would you want to do business with 
a company that would do whatever they pleased, no matter that it 
violates licenses and contracts and so forth? I know that I wouldn't.

 TANSTAAFL
 Rasyr (Tim Dugger)
 System Editor
 Iron Crown Enterprises
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Re: [Ogf-l] Employee mistake scenario

2003-06-14 Thread Lizard 
At 06:40 AM 6/14/2003, you wrote:
I'm trying to understand this employee mistake scenario.

Hypothetical: Lime-Green Ronin publishes Mercenaries of Seaport as
100 percent open text. The company intended to do this, but the only
written documentation of this intent is the book itself.
One month later, an animation company offers to option the characters
in the book for development as a TV series.
Lime-Green Ronin announces on its Web site that an employee
mistakenly put the 100 percent open text declaration in Mercenaries
of Seaport. The company only intended to open Appendix III, paragraph
5 and the stat block and combat description of the spam golem.
How would third-party reusers be safe from this situation? It's not
like most companies are chatty enough to clarify their intent for any
of their work.
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Well, let's see. Is there an extensive public record of Lime Samurai 
announcing their intent to make nearly all the content closed? Does this 
follow the pattern of their previous books? Have they spoken at length 
about how It's all closed but the spam golem?

WOTC has a pretty extensive record of public comments prior to the release 
of the SRD that Dungeon Master is not OGC.

If this went before a jury, it would be pretty open-and-shut.

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