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Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.
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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 8920442" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>Yes. But, the SRD did not become OGC as a part of WotC accepting a license agreement. The SRD became open content by WotC presenting it as OGC.</p><p></p><p>I‘m thinking I’m being too loose: Typically, content becomes a part of OGC be being marked as such as a part of using other OGC, using the OGL. I used that to mean that the content was contributed. I should have said that the material was contributed while invoking section 4 because other OGC was being used.</p><p></p><p>Can material from 3rd parties become OGC without invoking section 4? That is, without using other OGC? I suppose, but that doesn’t seem relevant to the current discussion.</p><p></p><p>Hence, for the current discussion, there is OGC which is contributed directly with no concurrent use of section 4. That is, the SRD. Then there is OGC which was contributed with a concurrent use of section 4 for other OGC.</p><p></p><p>Really, this is a silly place to raise an objection. What matters is that WotC did not accept a license (to use OGC, at least in reference to the SRD), and I had no line showing them doing so. Whereas A and B do accept licenses, because A used the SRD and B used the SRD and used Z1 (A’s contributed OGC.)</p><p></p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 8920442, member: 13107"] Yes. But, the SRD did not become OGC as a part of WotC accepting a license agreement. The SRD became open content by WotC presenting it as OGC. I‘m thinking I’m being too loose: Typically, content becomes a part of OGC be being marked as such as a part of using other OGC, using the OGL. I used that to mean that the content was contributed. I should have said that the material was contributed while invoking section 4 because other OGC was being used. Can material from 3rd parties become OGC without invoking section 4? That is, without using other OGC? I suppose, but that doesn’t seem relevant to the current discussion. Hence, for the current discussion, there is OGC which is contributed directly with no concurrent use of section 4. That is, the SRD. Then there is OGC which was contributed with a concurrent use of section 4 for other OGC. Really, this is a silly place to raise an objection. What matters is that WotC did not accept a license (to use OGC, at least in reference to the SRD), and I had no line showing them doing so. Whereas A and B do accept licenses, because A used the SRD and B used the SRD and used Z1 (A’s contributed OGC.) TomB [/QUOTE]
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