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I noticed Chaosium was listed among the companies that signed on to the ORC. Chaosium already has an SRD for their Basic Roleplaying system, currently released under an open license clearly inspired by but distinct from the WotC OGL. So all Chaosium has to do—and what it seems likely it's going...

The original post says nothing of the sort. You're reading things into it that aren't there. (Admittedly, that part of the post is very sloppily worded, so I can see how it could be interpreted that way.) This doesn't mean the derivative works are under the same copyright, nor does it mean...

IANAL, but I'm pretty sure whoever wrote the U.S. Copyright Office explanation on derivative works was, or at least consulted one: That is, you can't copyright just a direct duplication of an existing work, but if you add to or modify it you can copyright the version with your additions. You...

The original post in the thread doesn't say that derivative works can't be copyrighted. It only says you can't legally make and sell a derivative work without permission from the original copyright holder. But if you do make a derivative work—because, for instance, you do have that...

I was talking about Unearthed Arcana, not the Monster Manual II. (Turns out both books happen to have the OGL on page 222. Huh.) The Unearthed Arcana OGL does include the proper copyright notices in Section 15. You're right, though, that the MM2 OGL doesn't—I hadn't checked that one. Maybe...

I thought of that, but I checked and the copy I'm looking at is the first printing. I guess it's not entirely impossible that a few books were printed without the OGL and they caught their mistake early enough they still considered the rest of the run part of the first printing, but that seems...

Nope. The full OGL, with the sources in Section 15, is right there on page 222. I'm looking at it right now. And Page 2 includes the requisite specification of Product Identity. The only thing I'm seeing that might be a violation of the OGL is that the title page lists the resources used for...

Okay, I just finished reading this thread (phew!), and there's... a lot here to digest. But there's a bit in one post a ways back that nobody seems to have responded to, and while it's not terribly important to the matter at hand, I did want to respond in case anyone found it interesting: WotC...

A few other open games I haven't seen mentioned (though maybe they were and I missed them): Dominion Rules - AFAIK the first RPG to be released under an open license, predating the OGL; now available for free online (though you can buy a print copy on Lulu if you want to support the creators)...

You can't? I sure as heck can. Aboleths. Ankhegs. Bulettes. Driders. Gibbering mouthers. Glabrezu. Gricks. Hezrou. Otyughs. Remorhazes. Ropers. Rust monsters. Sahuagin. Vrocks. Xorns. All in the SRD. All original D&D monsters. None of those are in the public domain. This is...