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<blockquote data-quote="Flyspeck23" data-source="post: 1039106" data-attributes="member: 10648"><p>More news on this neverending story... a new email by Mr. Meyer, after I've pointed him to my sources at <a href="http://www.wizards.com/d20" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/d20</a> (once again, translation by me):</p><p></p><p><em>Dear Mr. Pietraszak,</em></p><p><em>I am not a lawyer and am bound by the defaults and explanations, which we receive from Wizards OF the Coast/Hasbro. I think you, like many other people, are mixing the D20 License and the OGL License. These are two different licenses, for which apply different defaults. </em></p><p><em>So the material of the SRD may be used in the context of the OGL, but no connection to D&D, D20, the SRD or similar may be made (also not in the context of the supply of the material - for example on your homepage). Besides that, the entire licenses (license text, Contributors, emphasis of the new open content, no advertisement with the Contributors, etc.) must be considered.</em></p><p><em>In the context of the D20 license this looks, as I've pointed out, completely differently. Here the SRD serves to our information only as reference for the manufacturers of D20 material, and may only be used within a clearly more limited framework, than the OGL. </em></p><p><em>Yours sincerely, </em></p><p><em>Bjoern Meyer</em></p><p><em></em> </p><p></p><p>Sorry for that crappy translation. I'm not quite sure if "defaults" is the correct word to use... btw, it gets increasingly difficult to put some meaning to these sentences <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Again, the original text:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em> "Sehr geehrter Herr Pietraszak,</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>ich bin kein Jurist und halte mich an die Vorgaben und Erläuterungen, die wir von Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro erhalten. Meines erachtens bringen sie wie viele andere Leute auch, die D20 Lizenz und die OGL Lizenz teilweise durcheinander. Es handelt sich um zwei sehr unterschiedliche Lizenzen für die auch unterschiedliche Vorgaben für die Nutzung gelten. So darf im Rahmen der OGL zwar das Material des SRD verwendet werden, aber dabei darf in keinster Weise ein Bezug zu D&D, D20, dem SRD oder ähnlichem herge</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>stellt werden (auch nicht im Rahmen der Bereitstellung des Materials - sprich auf der Homepage). Zudem müssen die gesamten Lizenzvorgaben (Lizenztext, Contributors, Hervorhebung des neuen Open Content, keine Werbung mit den Contributors, etc.) beachtet werden. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Im Rahmen der D20 Lizenz sieht dies wie gesagt ganz anders aus. Hier dient das SRD unseren Informationen nach lediglich als Referenz für die Hersteller von D20 Material, und darf nur in einem deutlich eingeschränkterem Rahmen, als bei der OGL benutzt werden. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Mit freundlichen Grüßen</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><em>Björn Meyer </em></span><em> </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flyspeck23, post: 1039106, member: 10648"] More news on this neverending story... a new email by Mr. Meyer, after I've pointed him to my sources at [URL]http://www.wizards.com/d20[/URL] (once again, translation by me): [I]Dear Mr. Pietraszak, I am not a lawyer and am bound by the defaults and explanations, which we receive from Wizards OF the Coast/Hasbro. I think you, like many other people, are mixing the D20 License and the OGL License. These are two different licenses, for which apply different defaults. So the material of the SRD may be used in the context of the OGL, but no connection to D&D, D20, the SRD or similar may be made (also not in the context of the supply of the material - for example on your homepage). Besides that, the entire licenses (license text, Contributors, emphasis of the new open content, no advertisement with the Contributors, etc.) must be considered. In the context of the D20 license this looks, as I've pointed out, completely differently. Here the SRD serves to our information only as reference for the manufacturers of D20 material, and may only be used within a clearly more limited framework, than the OGL. Yours sincerely, Bjoern Meyer [/I] Sorry for that crappy translation. I'm not quite sure if "defaults" is the correct word to use... btw, it gets increasingly difficult to put some meaning to these sentences ;) [SIZE=1] Again, the original text: [I] "Sehr geehrter Herr Pietraszak, ich bin kein Jurist und halte mich an die Vorgaben und Erläuterungen, die wir von Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro erhalten. Meines erachtens bringen sie wie viele andere Leute auch, die D20 Lizenz und die OGL Lizenz teilweise durcheinander. Es handelt sich um zwei sehr unterschiedliche Lizenzen für die auch unterschiedliche Vorgaben für die Nutzung gelten. So darf im Rahmen der OGL zwar das Material des SRD verwendet werden, aber dabei darf in keinster Weise ein Bezug zu D&D, D20, dem SRD oder ähnlichem herge stellt werden (auch nicht im Rahmen der Bereitstellung des Materials - sprich auf der Homepage). Zudem müssen die gesamten Lizenzvorgaben (Lizenztext, Contributors, Hervorhebung des neuen Open Content, keine Werbung mit den Contributors, etc.) beachtet werden. Im Rahmen der D20 Lizenz sieht dies wie gesagt ganz anders aus. Hier dient das SRD unseren Informationen nach lediglich als Referenz für die Hersteller von D20 Material, und darf nur in einem deutlich eingeschränkterem Rahmen, als bei der OGL benutzt werden. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Björn Meyer [/I][/SIZE][I] [/I] [/QUOTE]
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