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TESS only lists 2, one of which is dead (cancelled in 1991), and neither of them is in the RPG industry (remember, context counts (and sometimes geography does as well)). Within the RPG industry, d20 is a common term and in common use, and there is no existing trademark on "d20" within the RPG...

I'm not sure why you would presume that. I don't know what the "average" opinion would be, but I personally like to have printed books. I don't much enjoy reading books (general prose nor technical material) on-line, especially when it was written for the page. Short technical documents are...

Let me rephrase those two paragraphs in a more chronological order, as I think that's where the confusion in those two statements came from (and, again, this is from my having been an observer/user): 1) PCGen starts using material in a manner they considered compliant with copyright laws. 2)...

Sorry :-} I went back and changed the post in question to an appology (and explanation).

No offense, but have you actually read the d20STL and the license guide? "D20" and "d20" are not in the list of trademarks. The list of trademarks governed by those licenses are (quoted from the guide, with my parenthetical explanation of the first item): The d20 system logo (the stylized...

My understanding and observation was that it was part of the existing "specific permission from the publisher, outside of the OGL" process that PCGen had been following for a while. Any vendor could have said "we will give you that permission for our products if you become OGL and/or d20STL...

Re: Re: Re: In my humble opinion Wouldn't it be better to call him "God of the Orcs"? :-) And for the non-ethnic dieties, refer to them by domain, like "God of Nature and Druids" or something (random hypothetical, not meant to refer to any particular diety).

No, you have not. Because that phrase does not contain anything that is protected, nor protectable. The d20STL does not cover "d20", it covers "d20 System" and the d20 system logo (the stylized graphic image). Nothing in "A d20 character generator" is trademarked, nor is anything in that...

How is this different from what Pcgen started doing? (contacting publishers and asking their permission to use their material)

I hope d20stl wasn't one of the issues that caused you to form your opinion of pcgen's compliance. Until WOTC asked them to be d20stl compliant, the d20stl was a non-issue for pcgen. Pcgen hasn't been using the d20 trademarks, so they had no need to be compliant with the d20stl. The issue is...

(I removed this post because I was coming in to the thread late, and started repling as I went along (the eternal trade off between "post before I forget the point I wanted to make while reading all of the rest of the messages" and "waiting to respond until you have the rest of the story"). As...