I recall several years ago there was a mailing list used by publishers that utilized the d20 SRD - http://opengamingfoundation.org/mailinglist.html

These links are all but dead. Does anyone know if they are truly dead, or just moved elsewhere?

Oh, okay. Answering my own question...

The mailing lists were killed in 1997, then supposedly moved to Enworld. I knew there were publisher forums on Enworld, but I don't see them any more, so they must be killed.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@mail.opengamingfoundation.org/msg02634.html

Out of curiosity, what were you looking at these for?

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Quote from: RPGPundit;628108Out of curiosity, what were you looking at these for?

There used to be a lot of good information on the license itself. One thing Ive been thinking about is depictions of monsters based on the SRD.

Art is considered by default as Product Identity.

Various monsters are depicted in the Monster Manual(s), Pathfinder's Bestiary, etc, with characteristics that are similar to each other (near identical), yet the actual textual descriptions never go into that level of detail. Some basically have almost no detail.

Consider for example - the Xorn. There isn't any example from mythology to draw on. Therefore, the depiction of the Xorn comes from either the text of the SRD or by way of duplicating qualities depicted in copyrighted artwork.

Now the legal discussion on those lists were quite good. I wanted to see what is said about this. I have a project that would involve depictions of monsters in a new way (can't go into specifics until the time is right).

You may wish to try asking on the Pathfinder Compatible publishers/products area.  A lot of the same folks are there and similar issues have brought up good discussion.  Of course, one of the responses will be contact a lawyer.

http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderRPG/licensees

For example, this thread: http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2p22y?Section-15-OGL-and-Exhibit-B-items  (Not exactly your question, but I wanted to show the feedback you can get.)

(I like theRPGSite and support it, but the linked forum seems to have the correct audience for this question.)