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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:17 AM
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Subject: [Open_Gaming] Faust's database or the equivulant
<< All,
ON the subject of Faust's database, would each file in the database be
required to have the OGL included it?
I ask this because someone will eventually send a link to just one of the
files in the database and thus could conceivably bypass any posting of the
OGL. Then that person would d'load the file and it would be distributed
without the required OGL.
Just a thought for the masses. >>
I think the basic answer is "Yes". But it would be a manageable scripting
effort to generate all pages dynamically, and simply attach the appropriate
licenses and appropriate versions as part of the dynamically generated
pages. It would NOT be a trivial task, since you can't just tag on license
files: you have to make sure all copyright notices are preserved, and
diffferent OGC will need to preserve different notices; and I would prefer
it if different products were distributed with the same license versions
under which they were released (because then it's a more accurate picture of
exactly what was released). But this is all feasible, and would keep the
database size from getting quite so out of control.
Now bandwidth... THAT would get out of control, just a bit. (But when my
satellite modem gets hooked up next month, I hope not to worry about
bandwidth nearly as much as I do right now...)
Martin L. Shoemaker
Emerald Software, Inc. -- Custom Software and UML Training
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