I know the ink is still wet on the OGL, but here's an idea for the
next version.
I've seen the discussion here over the last couple of weeks regarding
what should be marked and how to best mark it as a sign of weakness in
the OGL. We're most familiar with the license, yet we're still
confused. Here's a simple change that I think would make the license
easier to use. Simply add the word "new" to section 8. Like this:
8. Identification: If you distribute Open Game Content You must
clearly indicate which portions of the work that you are
distributing are new Open Game Content.
This would mean that if you are using a rule that is marked as OGC in
another work, you wouldn't have to mark it as such in your work. Yet
all new rules you create would have to be marked as OGC. So you could
create some new rules and describe them all in an appendix which you
could mark as OGC. The rest of your work wouldn't have to repeatedly
mark these things as OGC.
What do you all think?
-kenan
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