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Okay, so I have a couple questions regarding the legalese behind the Open Gaming License from WotC, the Pathfinder Community Use License and the material that the community is thereby allowed to use.
I am currently creating a wiki which is to become a sort of "living Campaign world" and I am trying to make it as absolutely legal as possible, which means no use of product identity or anything not covered under the OGL or PF Community Use License. This is proving to be slightly harder than I imagined, and I would appreciate it if anyone knew of any third party publishers who designated their work as OGL and free for the community to use.
What I have found so far is that which was put out by Wizards of the Coast, on the website www.d20srd.org. Also I believe that the Advanced Bestiary is also OGL. Does anyone else know of any resources I can use? Those regarding monsters, magic or equipment would be particularly helpful.
And one final question about feats. This seems to be a very complicated issue as there are so many feats out there. Say I were to need to use a feat for a character, like Augmented Alchemy for example, but Augmented Alchemy is not one of the OGL feats. I still need something similar to the effects of the feat to make my character, the Alchemist. Do I need to make a new feat with slightly different name and details on it's use, or is that still infringing upon the trademark? Would I then need to contact Wizards of the Coast every time I needed to use a non-OGL feat like that?
The Grand OGL Wiki lists all the books that have OGC: http://grandwiki.wikidot.com/
If you're simply using the name of a Feat, that's within copyright (assuming the Feat name doesn't include IP) and you don't have to worry about OGL at all. If you're trying to post the rules for the feat, then you need to follow OGL rules.
WotC is not going to answer your questions. You'll need to figure it out yourself.