On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 05:14 PM, The Sigil wrote:
If you check out the site, you'll note that every entry DOES have the full OGL included with it. :-)Yeah, I see that now. That's probably the safest way, at least for individual items.
But nothing forbids me (AFAIK) from putting anything before or after that... so it's still okay to say:Not sure about this. Granted, there have been debates in the past (or the present...) about how exact "exact" is meant to be in copying Section 15 info. And I'm guessing most parties with standing wouldn't actually care about this. Even so, interposing new text into the Section 15 entries makes me a little nervous.
Allip: "System Rules Document Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson."
The other thing is that while your license is correct for the big "compilation" pages, that's not really what I'm after. Were those the only pages available, I'd have to include that entire Section 15 any time I reused one of those monsters.
If you like, I will happily provide you with all code in the ASP pages I use to generate my webpages if you intend to do something like this. And that's a standing offer to anyone.Appreciated. My example was somewhat hypothetical, and the part that isn't theory is my learning project for PHP -- but free code is never bad. :-)
FWIW, this is not the opinion of Wizards, at least. Their FAQ says, "It will be sufficient to include a link on every page containing Open Game Content to one centralized copy of the License."2. Do something like most printed collections: one immense Section 15 in the OGL, linked from each page.I think, technically, you must include the OGL "with every copy [of OGC] you distribute." To me, that means, "on the same webpage" not "as a link on the webpage."
The main reason, for me, not to adopt this approach is that it becomes impossible to painlessly extract just one thing from the site: anyone doing so would have to reproduce my entire site's huge Section 15.
And in my hypothetical example, this would likely still be the case.3. Treat each item as its own "work" with its own copy of the OGL, and its own Section 15.That is how I have done it - but again, I use ASP to dynamically generate the S15's.
My concern, as I said in my followup, is that the site itself might still technically be considered a compilation that must be licensed under the OGL. But I think that concern is largely groundless.
Finally, I do not believe I need a copy of the OGL linked from every page. Every page that I display that contains Open Game Content has the OGL "attached" at the bottom. Every other page on my site (i.e., all pages without OGC) has no OGL attached. Perhaps my understanding of the OGL is spotty on this issue, but I believe I am correct in this implementation - every webpage with OGC gets and OGL, every page with no OGC doesn't need one, even if they are under the same "umbrella" domain name.
I would guess that you're probably right on this. Sixten
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