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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2808147" data-attributes="member: 2013">The meaning seems to have evolved since I first coined the term on the ogf-l mailing lists (unless I'm gravely mistaken, this post: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@opengamingfoundation.org/msg06225.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@opengamingfoundation.org/msg06225.html</a> is the first time the term was introduced - by myself - on Nov 28, 2001, so the term is now just about 4 years old).I clarified my original intent here the next day: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@opengamingfoundation.org/msg06245.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@opengamingfoundation.org/msg06245.html</a>Since that time, the term seems to have evolved into meaning "OGC that cannot, for all practical purposes, be distinguished from non-OGC content and therefore is not really functional as OGC" due to (a) heavy intertwining of PI, (b) badly worded (intentionally or otherwise) OGC designations, or (c) non-existent OGC designations.The term "Crippled" was chosen deliberately by me to point out that while, technically, stuff might be called "Open" by a strict interpretation of the license, it was, for all practical purposes, "Closed" for re-use, which (a) didn't allow me to properly research it when I saw it in a second-generation work - which was in fact my concern when I first used the term, as should be clear by my OGF-L post and (b) didn't really play well with the idea of Open Game Content to begin with... if you're going to be take advantage of and create a derived work from, the SRD, it doesn't seem ethical to make a poor OGC declaration to make sure that nobody can make a derived work from your stuff.  In other words, it looked nice on the surface, but once you looked closer, you realize that its knees had been cut out from under it and it could not stand independent of the original work (thus making it "crippled" instead of "fully functional").Four years later, it remains a huge problem in the OGL publishing world... and a pet peeve of mine. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

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