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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1569311" data-attributes="member: 10201">Not really true. Anything that is OGC may be reprinted. Anything that is not, may not (except to the degree allowed by Fair Use and other exceptions to copyright and trademark restrictions). Also, anything "derivative of" OGC must also be OGC. So that's where you get the general division you're observing from: the vast majority of WotC OGL-released products are D20 System. And WotC started the trend of splitting things that way by releasing all of their rules as OGC, but absolutely none of the flavor text. However, there's nothing stopping you from releasing fluff as OGC (we'll be doing it with Four Colors al Fresco, Green Ronin did it with Freeport). And there's nothing stopping you from keeping your crunch as closed, provided said crunch is not derivative of material that is OGC. [Now, arguments can be made that anything that is D20 System-compatible is "derivative" of the D20SRD and must itself be OGC, and they might be right. But "derivative" is a fairly nebulous term, undefined in the license itself, and with a spectrum of meanings outside the license. So i won't rule out wholesale a perfectly legal D20 System product with non-OGC crunch.]Also, as for widget names, you've hit on one of the ongoing debates about the use of OGC and PI. Generally speaking a widget which is OGC but whose label is not is what is referred to as "crippled" OGC, because, while you can reuse it, you are forced to rename it, so the reuse is non-obvious, and sources can't easily be tracked. Furthermore, in some cases, renaming can be tricky, if the original name that was not released is fairly generic ("shadow weapon" was an example spell name of this sort, IIRC).</blockquote>

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