On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:17:58 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If there are PI licenses, then you probably have to specifically > note which portions of the text are PI and belong to someone else. > > So, for example, let's say I come up with a superhero called the > "Great Guffaw". I PI his name and his background. I give > somebody a PI license. 20 iterations down the road a book comes > out under the OGL. If it has the "Great Guffaw" in it, it should > probably note that it is the PI of Lee Valentine, used > with permission, derived from "Lee's Book of Superheroes". > > How would somebody not know that this was my PI?!!
Unfortunately, not all PI licenses will follow that form. If the license only requires you to say "PI taken from Book X is used with permission," the people further down the OGC chain won't know what bits of the book are PI. In the case of The Great Guffaw (if your PI license took this form), the third party would know that there's some PI in Book Y that was taken from "Lee's Book of Superheroes," but he wouldn't know exactly what that PI happened to be. (And the suggestion that he buy a copy of both Book Y and "Lee's Book of Superheroes" and then spend some hours line-by-line cross-checking the two to see what material is common to the two of them is ridiculous.) Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
