OGL

OPEN GAME LICENSE

Version 1.0a

 

The following text is the property of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. and is Copyright
2000 Wizards of the Coast, Inc ("Wizards").
All Rights Reserved.


1. Definitions:

(a)"Contributors" means the copyright and/or trademark owners
who have contributed Open Game Content;

(b)"Derivative Material" means copy-righted material including derivative works and translations (including into other computer languages), potation, modification, correction, addition, extension, upgrade, improvement, compilation, abridgment or other form in which an existing work may be recast, transformed or adapted;

(c) "Distribute" means to repro-duce, license, rent, lease, sell, broadcast, publicly display, transmit or otherwise distribute;

(d)"Open Game Content" means the game mechanic and includes the
methods, procedures, processes and routines to the extent such content does not
embody the Product Identity and is an enhancement over the prior art and any
additional content clearly identified as Open Game Content by the Contributor,
and means any work covered by this License, including translations and deriva-tive
works under copyright law, but specifically excludes Product Identity.

(e) "Product Identity" means product and product line names, logos and identifying
marks including trade dress; artifacts; creatures characters; stories, storylines,
plots, thematic elements, dialogue, incidents, language, artwork, symbols,
designs, depictions, likenesses, formats, poses, concepts, themes and graphic,
photographic and other visual or audio representations; names and descriptions
of characters, spells, enchantments, personalities, teams, personas, likenesses
and special abilities; places, locations, environments, creatures, equipment, mag-ical
or supernatural abilities or effects, logos, symbols, or graphic designs; and
any other trademark or registered trademark clearly identified as Product identity
by the owner of the Product Identity, and which specifically excludes the Open
Game Content;

(f) "Trademark" means the logos, names, mark, sign, motto,
designs that are used by a Contributor to identify itself or its products or the asso-ciated
products contributed to the Open Game License by the Contributor

(g) "Use", "Used" or "Using" means to use, Distribute, copy, edit, format, modify,
translate and otherwise create Derivative Material of Open Game Content.

(h) "You" or "Your" means the licensee in terms of this agreement.

2. The License: This License applies to any Open Game Content that contains a
notice indicating that the Open Game Content may only be Used under and in
terms of this License.
You must affix such a notice to any Open Game Content
that you Use. No terms may be added to or subtracted from this License except
as described by the License itself. No other terms or conditions may be applied
to any Open Game Content distributed using this License.
 


3.Offer and Acceptance: By Using the Open Game Content You indicate Your
acceptance of the terms of this License.


4. Grant and Consideration: In consideration for agreeing to use this License, the
Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license
with the exact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content.

 

5.Representation of Authority to Contribute: If You are contributing original mate-rial
as Open Game Content, You represent that Your Contributions are Your orig-inal
creation and/or You have sufficient rights to grant the rights conveyed by this
License.


6.Notice of License Copyright: You must update the COPYRIGHT NOTICE por-tion
of this License to include the exact text of the COPYRIGHT NOTICE of any
Open Game Content You are copying, modifying or distributing, and You must
add the title, the copyright date, and the copyright holder's name to the COPY-RIGHT
NOTICE of any original Open Game Content you Distribute.


7. Use of Product Identity: You agree not to Use any Product Identity, including as
an indication as to compatibility, except as expressly licensed in another, inde-pendent
Agreement with the owner of each element of that Product Identity. You
agree not to indicate compatibility or co-adaptability with any Trademark or
Registered Trademark in conjunction with a work containing Open Game Content
except as expressly licensed in another, independent Agreement with the owner
of such Trademark or Registered Trademark. The use of any Product Identity in
Open Game Content does not constitute a challenge to the ownership of that
Product Identity. The owner of any Product Identity used in Open Game Content
shall retain all rights, title and interest in and to that Product Identity.


8. Identification: If you distribute Open Game Content You must clearly indicate
which portions of the work that you are distributing are Open Game Content.


9. Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated
versions of this License. You may use any authorized version of this License to
copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under
any version of this License.


10. Copy of this License: You MUST include a copy of this License with every copy
of the Open Game Content You Distribute.


11. Use of Contributor Credits: You may not market or advertise the Open Game
Content using the name of any Contributor unless You have written permission
from the Contributor to do so.


12. Inability to Comply: If it is impossible for You to comply with any of the terms
of this License with respect to some or all of the Open Game Content due to
statute, judicial order, or governmental regulation then You may not Use any
Open Game Material so affected.


13. Termination: This License will terminate automatically if You fail to comply with
all terms herein and fail to cure such breach within 30 days of becoming aware of
the breach.
All sublicenses shall survive the termination of this License.


14. Reformation: If any provision of this License is held to be unenforceable, such
provision shall be reformed only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable.


15. COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Open Game License v 1.0 Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
System Rules Document Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors
Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on original material by E.
Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.