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<blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 8986298" data-attributes="member: 70468"><p>Can you be more specific? Is “xyz” a game using the ORC License and “ab” something else that presumably was not ORC Licensed? Is this combined work (“xyz+ab”) being distributed together? I don’t see how you escape part 2 of I.b., which defines mechanics are ORC Content, and III.c., which says the definition controls when there is a conflict with Product Identity.</p><p></p><p>(Emphasis mine.)</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">I.b. <strong><u><em>ORC Content</em></u></strong><em><u> means</u></em> (1) any material that would otherwise constitute Product Identity but that has been expressly identified as ORC Content by a Licensor, and (2) <em><u>those expressions of ideas and methods of operation of a game</u></em>, that are comprised of systems, procedures, processes, rules, laws, instructions, heuristics, routines, functional elements, commands, structures, principles, methodologies, operations, devices, and concepts of play, and the limitations, restraints, constraints, allowances, and affordances inherent in gameplay, including expressions describing the function of or providing instructions as to the following</p> <p style="margin-left: 40px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">III.c. <strong>Product Identity Notice.</strong> A statement based on reasonable, good-faith efforts that identifies the elements of Your Product Identity, if any, contained in the work in which You Use the ORC Content. For avoidance of doubt, such designation neither limits Your rights in Your Product Identity nor limits any downstream licensee’s Use of the Adapted ORC Content. <em><u>In the event of a conflict between Your designation of Product Identity and the definition of ORC Content, the definition shall control.</u></em></p><p></p><p>If “ab” is not content you can license under the ORC License, then I don’t think it would be possible to combine the two works. It’s like how certain open-source licenses are <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses" target="_blank">incompatible</a>, and you can’t combine software using those licenses together and distribute it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kenada, post: 8986298, member: 70468"] Can you be more specific? Is “xyz” a game using the ORC License and “ab” something else that presumably was not ORC Licensed? Is this combined work (“xyz+ab”) being distributed together? I don’t see how you escape part 2 of I.b., which defines mechanics are ORC Content, and III.c., which says the definition controls when there is a conflict with Product Identity. (Emphasis mine.) [INDENT]I.b. [B][U][I]ORC Content[/I][/U][/B][I][U] means[/U][/I] (1) any material that would otherwise constitute Product Identity but that has been expressly identified as ORC Content by a Licensor, and (2) [I][U]those expressions of ideas and methods of operation of a game[/U][/I], that are comprised of systems, procedures, processes, rules, laws, instructions, heuristics, routines, functional elements, commands, structures, principles, methodologies, operations, devices, and concepts of play, and the limitations, restraints, constraints, allowances, and affordances inherent in gameplay, including expressions describing the function of or providing instructions as to the following[/INDENT] [INDENT=2][/INDENT] [INDENT]III.c. [B]Product Identity Notice.[/B] A statement based on reasonable, good-faith efforts that identifies the elements of Your Product Identity, if any, contained in the work in which You Use the ORC Content. For avoidance of doubt, such designation neither limits Your rights in Your Product Identity nor limits any downstream licensee’s Use of the Adapted ORC Content. [I][U]In the event of a conflict between Your designation of Product Identity and the definition of ORC Content, the definition shall control.[/U][/I][/INDENT] If “ab” is not content you can license under the ORC License, then I don’t think it would be possible to combine the two works. It’s like how certain open-source licenses are [URL='https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses']incompatible[/URL], and you can’t combine software using those licenses together and distribute it. [/QUOTE]
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