[freeroleplay] Re: Open Game License and Product Identity
- From: "Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:02:02 +0000 (GMT)
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> > "2. The License: This License applies to any Open Game Content that
> > contains a notice indicating that the Open Game Content may only be Used
> > under and in terms of this License. You must affix such a notice to any
> > Open Game Content that you Use. No terms may beadded to or subtracted
> > from this License except as described by the License itself. No other
> > terms or conditions may be applied to any Open Game Content distributed
> > using this License."
...
> I wonder if this condition only applies to downstream users? I'm not
> sure if you could read it as: if you derive from someone else's OGC you
> cannot add any further restrictions, but if you are the originator of
> the work, i.e. you have not derived your work from anyone else's OGC,
> than you may add further restrictions to the OGL.
As copyright holder you can license it any way you want, but then you have
in effect created a new OGL license with the same name which is
incompatible with the original OGL and OGC. Rather pointless, and WotC may
take offense, too (not sure if they could do anything about it, though).
- Per
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