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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darkfox190" data-source="post: 6368363" data-attributes="member: 30849"><p>Rules of a game aren't covered under copyright - In fact, if you check out government websites on copyright you can see that it explicitly says "Once a game has been made public, nothing in the copyright law prevents  others from developing another game based on similar principles.  Copyright protects only the particular manner of an author’s expression  in literary, artistic, or musical form." This is why you see eight million different -opoly games covering subjects from popular to offensive (Sports teams, ghettoploy.) The OGL is a restricting license that allows you to use certain terms and logos while disallowing other things. However, you don't HAVE to use the OGL. As long as you don't use any actually copyrighted or trademarked material, you're fully within your rights to manhandle the rules of a game as much as you like - As least while whatever company publishes those rules doesn't drown you in frivolous lawsuits, that is. While they have no legal ground to sue you, they can probably afford a lot more lawyers than you and just waste time till you go out of business.</p></blockquote><p></p>