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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5511650" data-attributes="member: 3400">I think I get the debate going on here and I agree with Bryon to the point that I think you may be conflating two different ideas. If Clark provides some 3pp support work for Paizo, he's using the OGL and SRD in one manner - supporting a game directly derived from and sitting directly on top of the SRD. That's supported by the OGL and it's easily to see how that would be protected by the license.The other idea is using the OGL and SRD to reproduce the rules to a game that is not the game described by the SRD. That's what OSRIC is doing and I can see anybody being wary of their interpretation of the OGL and use of the SRD to obtain licensed use of certain terms and descriptions. In other words, it looks like OSRIC is using the OGL and SRD to unlock certain IP elements of a game that was not opened up to licensing through the mechanism of those items happening to be shared between the two games.Of course, it's not just happenstance that the IP elements are shared. The SRD's game rules are directly derived from the earlier, unlicensed version OSRIC has rewritten. But I do think they've ventured into murkier waters that a publisher more risk averse with their own IP might avoid.</blockquote>