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Originally Posted by Morrus The license is very clear about it: you cannot use the license to publish character generation software, just like you couldn't use the d20 STL to do so. So no logo on your software, in short.
Whether you can do so without the license has the same answer as every other such question in the history of the universe: it falls under normal copyright law, and you'll need to consult a lawyer if you're unsure. Nobody from WotC will give you legal advice on that.
The fan site policy might present a third avennue for doing so, but you'll need to wait and see. |
Actually the way the lisence reads is:
5.5 Licensed Products. This License applies solely to Licensed Products as defined in Section 3 and to the specified uses set forth in Section 4. For the avoidance of doubt, and by way of example only, no Licensed Product will (a)
include web sites, interactive products, miniatures, or character creators; (b) describe a process for creating a character or applying the effects of experience to a character; (c) use the terms “Core Rules” or “Core Rulebook” or variations thereof on its cover or title, in self-reference or in advertising or marketing thereof; (d) refer to any artwork, imagery or other depiction contained in a Core Rulebook; (e) reprint any material contained in a Core Rulebook except as explicitly provided in Section 4; or (f) be incorporated into another product that is itself not a Licensed Product (such as, by way of example only, a magazine or book compilation).
So the word include is the issue with me. It says a product can't
include on it does say it can't
be one.
This lisence seems to only deal with book or print publishers. And if I want to take a literal reading of it it seems to say that as long as your print material doesn't include one that nothing in this license stops a non print publisher from making one. This license is very grey in a lot of area's.
And I'm not looking for advice, I would like an answer. Is not Linae the lisencing manager? So her or Scott Rouse should be able to answer this question without beating around the bush. I mean they have piped in on many other threads I would think they could do the same here.
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