AEG's Mercenaries
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Psion
Adventurer
Never tried, but WRT some other publishers with the habit of PI-ing names of races/classes/spells, I've seen just re-naming the thing and being done with it.
Vexing, I know, but better that fumbling around with designer intentions.
pawsplay
Hero
I noticed that they neglected to list their copyright in the Copyright Notice section. Although "sublicenses" would survive termination, this creates a strange situation, since by the license, you are required to reproduce their Copyright notice. It's not clear to me whether I would, or would not, include their Copyright information if I used their OGC.
Voadam
Legend
What's the wording of the OGC and PI designations.
In Swashbuckling Arcana from 2002 I think they PI'd all names then included a sublicense to allow use of PI'd names in spells, classes, monsters, items, etc.
pawsplay
Hero
I think because of the bad Copyright Notice, it may be dead in the water anyway. Sublicenses survive the termination of the license, but the license itself terminates automatically if the don't cure a breach within 30 days of being aware of it. It's hard to imagine that in all this time they haven't been aware of problems with their Copyright Notices.
Nellisir
Hero
I believe that's within 30 days of being given legal notification, which WotC, as the license owner, has apparently not opted to do. I'm not sure anyone else has much legal standing; you'd have to consult a lawyer.
I think AEG does include a copyright statement for each book, just not in the S.15 (where it ought to be). It's easy enough to insert it in. I realize that's not what you're -exactly- supposed to do, but if you want to use the book, you can either leave out the copyright, and continue to break the license, or fix it.
This is a common (at least with my collection of OGL books) technical mistake. When using the OGL you have to copy their S.15 exactly but you also put in a copyright notice of the book you are using so them not including it, in my non lawyer opinion, doesn't create a funcitonal issue.
Gil
pawsplay
Hero
Adding whatever text you want to the Copyright Declaration doesn't appear to be a license violation, and simply adding their copyright information doesn't appear to be indicating compatability. Still, I feel a little leery of even touching a broken license. From a philosophical standpoint, I put a lot more stock in contracts than in the IP-law-flavor-of-the-month.
