----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan S. Dancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] SRD, Computer Junk, and Going Nuts...
> From: "Brad Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Nothing personal Ryan, but "as far as I'm concerned" doesn't really cut
> it.
> > The OGL is a binding legal contract now, and your opinion won't matter
one
> > bit as far as what does or doesn't pass the test of 'clearly indicated'.
>
> Since the "Reasonable Person" test is purely subjective and is not a
defined
> set of rules, there is nothing other than opinions until a specific case
> goes in front of a specific court and a specific judge or set of jurors
> decide what is reasonable and what isn't. Thus, it would be foolish of me
> to say "this is reasonable, but this is not reasonable". All I can do is
try
> to provide some guidance about the matter from my perspective. YMMV.
>
> > A PDF is a nearly ideal format for
> > many OGC applications, but it doesn't fit your definition.
>
> PDF is a challenging case. The viewer is widespread and essentially free.
> However, without that viewer there is no good way to get the raw text out
of
> a PDF file. I suspect that as long as the viewer is available free of
> charge and is widely distributed, a court would find a PDF file to be
> "reasonably" easy to read and thus used as a medium to clearly identify
what
> content was Open Game Content.
>
Would it not be the case though that if the OGC is in a pdf and the
clearly identifying section is also in a PDF that it would be acceptable,
since to be able to have a chance of reusing the OGC you would need PDF
which would then mean you can read the description of what is PDF.
Likewise to read the OGC in a book you need to be able to read. If you can
read you can then read the description of what is OGC in the book,.
See where I'm going with that?
If however the OGC is in an ASCII file and the description of what is OGC
is in a PDF file I would consider this to not be valid.
bb.
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