----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Meerschaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Attempting to fully understand the software issue.
> Alec A. Burkhardt wrote:
[snip]
>
> If someone was presented with a work that used the "Appendix strategy",
> would a reasonable person conclude that the exact same text in the rest
> of the work is OGC? I think that he would; if we add on a qualfing
> statement somewhere in the legal text, I think that likihood rises to
> "clear identification."
>
>
> From where I sit, the barrier to the appendix strategy isn't the OGL;
> it's cost. In an instance where it's the most economical way to
> identify OGC, the OGL should allow it to be used.
>
>
Yes cost is the barrier, but the reason most people are discussing the
appendix idea is that it could be translated and used in software, where a
file distributed is considered as the appendix. During the start screen it
could say click here to view all OGC used in this product etc etc.
There would be no real cost increase for doing this. However for paper
products there would, in which case people could just use the alternate
colour font etc method.
I aggree that the OGL does not state you identify every occurance. I read
it to mean somewhere in the overall work it must be clearly identified what
is OGC and what isn't. For example in the freeport adventure it just states
at the beginning all text in this adventure is OGC.
I think a reasonable person would be able to determine that anything in
the adventure that they like and want to reuse can be reused as OGC if it is
listed in the appendix or coloured in a certain way etc etc........
bb.
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