The source is out there, so what? It's still protected by copyright, and most people won't be able to compile it.

It's not like anyone can use it, apart from doing security-analysis and either sending symantec patches, or hacking their customers. And in that respect, it's not different than any open source software.

(Well, of course, if you got a 10 year open source history, chances are your code is much better than if it gets accidentally released after years of bad practice. So this will hurt in the beginning; but pretty soon the quality will increase, either way...).

You're absolutely right. This isn't so much about making illegal copies invisible, this is about making only THEIR content visible.

Very blatantly so, I might add.

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html

Copyright violation isn't free speech, no matter how you want to dress it up as such.

You want to tell me linking to a document which might have been uploaded illegally ISN'T free speech?
It certainly is NOT copyright infringement.

And if you're not understanding why this MUST BE free speech, think of a document uploaded illegally (and in violation of copyright) which documents systematic abuse of people within a company. Also as a journalist or scientist you need to be able to document, cite and link to your sources. A ban on linking would be equivalent of banning scientific research in that field (and even if that field itself is only research about copyright infringement itself).

Under the terms of the license, all of the core rules can be re-packaged and sold in your own game
How nice. It grants me things the copyright-law already allows me? Because rules for games are not copyrightable anyway.

The OGL is a trademark-license. It basically allows you to place "D20-comaptible" to your material.

Since game rules are NOT COPYRIGHTABLE it does not grant you anything new -- you already had the right to release add-ons without any OGL whatsoever.

Apart from the trademark-grant, the OGL is a sham.

> In the song Yankee Doodle, Macaroni does not refer to pasta, but to an expensive Italian hat with a
> signature feather on it. Hence the line "...stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni"

No, it refers to someone who did "the great tour", which means visited europe and its most important cities and imported "italian" style. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)

And of course, Yankee Doodle is a _british_ song making fun of Yankees -- who promptly took it and made it their own ;)

And besides of all that babbling how slick and consistent this D20-Legend is, RuneQuest (1977) will most probably still beat this hands down in terms of consistency and balance.

So I'd be going with that Legend

There should be a warning Label: "WARNING excessive consumption of dihydrogen-monoxide can cause severe injuries and death, especially when consumend trough the respiratory tract".

Every year, thousands of people world-wide die of dihydrogen-monoxide (ah well, a lot less than those that die of the lack of it, actually).

The trouble is that the U.S. Congress uses EU insanity as an excuse to "harmonize" its copyright legislation to match what foreign countries offer in a game of copyright leapfrog

Well, it was U.S. interests in the first place which lobbied this into the EU.

http://falkvinge.net/2011/09/05/cable-reveals-extent-of-lapdoggery-from-swedish-govt-on-copyright-monopoly/