On 9/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's the thing -- and this is important, so feel free to repeat it ad-nauseum once you get it right.
*Despite* what the industry thinks, if you don't properly follow the OGL you don't gain its protections. If you fail to follow clause #8, you've broken the license. Just as if you used someone else's trademark, used non-OGC, or failed to update your Section 15.
Now, it's very likely that no one is going to come after your website that improperly uses someone else's OGC -- even if you're doing it wrong, the worst they can do is make you fix it.
But for the second-generation, if you don't trust your upstream authors, don't use them. Because if THEY get called to task and decide it's easier to just not fix it, then YOU lose the part of their work that used THEIR work.
DM
Contractual construction requires that you give effect to this if possible, even if it renders something else redundant. A poor attempt at contractual construction is one where you have to delete a portion of the contract for it to make sense when you read it.
Here's the thing -- and this is important, so feel free to repeat it ad-nauseum once you get it right.
*Despite* what the industry thinks, if you don't properly follow the OGL you don't gain its protections. If you fail to follow clause #8, you've broken the license. Just as if you used someone else's trademark, used non-OGC, or failed to update your Section 15.
Now, it's very likely that no one is going to come after your website that improperly uses someone else's OGC -- even if you're doing it wrong, the worst they can do is make you fix it.
But for the second-generation, if you don't trust your upstream authors, don't use them. Because if THEY get called to task and decide it's easier to just not fix it, then YOU lose the part of their work that used THEIR work.
DM
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