[Ogf-l] Final Email from Lists
Well folks, they served us well and honorably, but the time has come to put the Open Gaming Foundation lists out to pasture. This is the final official message from the lists. They'll be shut down shortly. I have asked, and the ENWorld Team has graciously agreed, to move the OGF discussions to ENWorld. Two new forums have been created to mimic these lists. With 4E coming up, and WotC appearing to be planning to tinker with its licensing regimes, I suspect interest in these topics will revive. And I don't have the time to do list management and administration tasks. Rather than ignore the problem, I think proactively finding a more suitable host was the right way to go. Thanks to all who subscribed and participated. You are all the keys to the success of the Open Gaming Movement. Ryan ___ Ogf-l mailing list Ogf-l@mail.opengamingfoundation.org http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
Re: [Ogf-l] OGC contamination?
On 9/5/06 8:04 PM, Vicki Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain that, since the fluff text will be published again by the original publisher, that company can publish it without having to do so under the Open Game License. You are correct. All the non-derivative work they created can be re-licensed as many times as they wish, under as many licensing regimes as they choose to use. Ryan ___ Ogf-l mailing list Ogf-l@mail.opengamingfoundation.org http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
Re: [Ogf-l] 2nd still
Title: Re: [Ogf-l] 2nd still Re:OSRIC Their license page is simply incorrect in many of its assertations. To the extent that the charts of ability scores do not represent a non-linear mathmatical function (i.e., the figures are arbitrarily made up by the original writer) they're protected by copyright and can't be reused without permission. To the extent that the class racial limitations and individual power descriptions and level dependent abilities and game modifiers match those of ADD (any edition) and are not the result of a simple linear mathematical function, those templates represent selection, arrangement and presentation copyrights inherent in ADD and suffer the same limitations. Spell names which are not OGC but are in ADD and are not obvious (i.e. they contain some creative element) are copyright by WotC. The 'to hit' charts, to the extent that they represent non-linear functions, are protected by WotC copyright. In summary: I wouldn't touch this without SERIOUS work to ensure everything I used was actually OGC. Ryan ___ Ogf-l mailing list Ogf-l@mail.opengamingfoundation.org http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
