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RPG Legalities: OGF/4eGSL/d20STLDiscussions about the Open Gaming Movement, the Open Gaming License, along with WotC's GSL. This is the new home of the OGF-L and d20-L listserver discussions.
OGL Section 1(b) "Derivative Works" mentions "potation" as one example. I've looked at a number of dictionaries and the only definition I find for that is "the act of drinking (esp., liquor)".
Does anyone know what "potation" means in this legal/publishing context? Any reference to a place that has the definition in this context?
__________________ ADVANCED DUNGEONS &DRAGONS is first and foremost a game for the fun and enjoyment of those who seek to use imagination and creativity. This is not to say that where it does not interfere with the flow of the game that the highest degree of realism hasn‘t been attempted, but neither is a serious approach to play discouraged. (1E DMG p. 9)
OGL Section 1(b) "Derivative Works" mentions "potation" as one example. I've looked at a number of dictionaries and the only definition I find for that is "the act of drinking (esp., liquor)".
Does anyone know what "potation" means in this legal/publishing context? Any reference to a place that has the definition in this context?
Maybe they're afraid someone is going to make 4e compatible malt liquor? ("I'd like a 40 of the Tarrasque Malt Liquor. I plan on drinking it as a standard action and sliding out the door. Take 1[W] and be dazed for one round.")
I just figured it was a spelling error. Though I can't think what the word is supposed to be. Maybe they wrote the GSL at a drinking party. :P
__________________ My current view of the OGL: Though accomplishing exactly what it was meant to do, it is flawed for not providing WOTC more latitude.
My current view of the GSL: section 2 and subsections 6.1, 11.1, and 11.3 need to be completely rewritten to protect the licensee from abuse, but the rest of the GSL is commendable and provides loss leader dynamics superior to the OGL, as the point to being a loss leader is pointing the community toward the loss leader.
Well, a "portation" is used in some contexts to mean the result of porting software between platforms, and so would fit into the general category of "Derivative Material". Word's spellchecker doesn't reconginze it, and recomments "potation" as the first correction.
So what we have here is probably a clause borrowed from a software license that was then spellchecked into a different word.
There was a Q&A entry explaining the meaning of potation (an anachronistic legal term meaning to convert from one form to another), but it is no longer there.
Tried to do a search on any online law dictionary but my google-fu is limited.
__________________ ADVANCED DUNGEONS &DRAGONS is first and foremost a game for the fun and enjoyment of those who seek to use imagination and creativity. This is not to say that where it does not interfere with the flow of the game that the highest degree of realism hasn‘t been attempted, but neither is a serious approach to play discouraged. (1E DMG p. 9)
Not only do you deserve kudos for finding this; I also found it curious one of the correspondents on that archive had his email "protected", yet a simple reply to gave me an email window with the adress "wyrm@blueriver.net" filled in for me...
Not only do you deserve kudos for finding this; I also found it curious one of the correspondents on that archive had his email "protected", yet a simple reply to gave me an email window with the adress "wyrm@blueriver.net" filled in for me...
Meh. That's what I get for being on the now-defunct e-mail discussion list, since I'm an avid supporter of the OGL.
__________________ Anyhoo, just some random thoughts...
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There was a Q&A entry explaining the meaning of potation (an anachronistic legal term meaning to convert from one form to another), but it is no longer there.
That sounds remarkably like what portation means in a software context, as already pointed out. So absent independent verification of the above, I suspect the "typo for 'portation'" theory is actually the correct one.
Not that it really matters. We know the intended meaning, and it conveniently doesn't change based on which theory of how it got there you believe.
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