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From: "Brad Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 5:18 PM
Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] SRD, Computer Junk, and Going Nuts...
> > woodelf
> >
> > i don't
> > see how you can claim that putting OGC in italics with notice
> > elsewhere that italic text in the work in question indicates OGC is
> > obviously superior in compliance to extracting the OGC text,
> > reproducing it in a separate portion of the work, nad explaining that
> > the text is OGC, both there and where it originally occurs in the
> > text.
>
> Lets make an example. Ignore for the moment that in this particular
example
> might not be protected by copyright - we are going to assume that the user
> wants to mark everything that came out of the SRD as OGC. Consider the
> basic mechanic of the skill check. In the SRD, the OGC looks like this:
>
> "Skill Checks
>
[SNIP NICE EXAMPLE]
And so again based on this example we show how hard it is to clearly
identify what is OGC whilst knowing you are 100% in complience with WOGL. We
all know of ways to show clearly, but whether this is clearly as identified
by the OGL is going to debate on and on. The only thing I think can be done
is to produce a program using mixed OGC and PI and see if any complaints are
received. This would be fine for a non commercial app as only personal time
would have been wasted on rewritting sections that don't comply.
I suppose we should be greatful that at least the OGL allows us to all make
extensions to 3ed where we wouldnt have been able to before. The fact that
it does not include software as part of the licence specifically is not
critical, although the amount of interest this topic has generated I hope
WOTC release either an updated or alternate (interoperable) licence that
deals at least in part with the issues related to software.
Now my question after getting that out of the way :) You say you only need
to identify OGC that is distributed, so if OGC is used in source code which
is distributed it must be marked. If the code is compiled some way must be
used to allow users to extract what is OGC etc. But what if the source is
never distributed and the binary is not distributed, in fact users connect
remotly to the binary and the only thing that is distrributed is the
information sent back and forth. Would this mean only OGC that is in that
information (assume textual info for now) would need to be identified?
bb.
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