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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1527487" data-attributes="member: 10201">OK. The spirit of the WotC OGL is sharing content, therefore i can ignore the PI and trademark clauses, because the letter of those parts violates the spirit of the WotC OGL, which is supposed to be an open-content license.You see, that's the danger of "spirit-over-letter" arguments: the spirit is a nebulous concept, and reasonable people may disagree over it.And it is my understanding that in a lot of jurisdictions (certainly in this one), speeding tickets are often reduced, if you make the court appearance, to the amount you were exceeding traffic flow, rather than the speed limit. But that's probably not a good example, because it's tainted with all sorts of cultural baggage. Frex, around here speeding tickets are routinely reduced in this manner (even for repeat offenders), even when traffic flow was 10-15mph over the speed limit. And speed limits (and red lights) are very poorly enforced to begin with. Unlike pretty much every other traffic law. In short, you can be weaving in and out of rush-hour traffic, doing 10mph faster than traffic flow and 20mph over the speedlimit, and get the ticket reduced. But when i ran a stop sign due to extraordinary circumstances, regained control of the car maybe 20' past the stop line, only risked the actions that caused my mistake after having ascertained that the only other vehicle within several blocks was on the other side of a divided highway more than a block away, and did all this with a sparkling-clean record, i couldn't get them to reduce it it all, much less to a warning. Setting aside personal opinions of the foolishness of my actions, or my culpability, it is demonstrable statistical fact that what i did was *far* less dangerous to myself or society than speeding in heavy traffic. Yet our society is pretty laid back about speeding. So it's probably a really poor example.Back to the spirit-vs.-letter argument: what if the actual spirit of speedlimit laws isn't to keep people safe, but to establish culpability? IOW, if i'm not speeding and someone steps out into the road in such a way that i can't stop, it's not my fault because i "wasn't doing anything wrong", but if i'm speeding, it is my fault. I honestly believe that's an equally-reasonable interpretation of the spirit behind speed limits, but it leads to different "appropriate" behavior than the one you put forth.</blockquote>

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