Seems to me the real goal is to make sure authors get credit for their work.
Because of the way OGC works, the actual material you write may get changed or altered or renamed etc. So its going to be unrealistic to expect your name to stay pinned onto the specific bit you did, in most second generation publications. Indeed most profesional publications tend to just put the name of the product in the OGL since they bought the material from the writters and thus hold the copyright. The authors are listed in the credits but you have no idea which parts of the book they did. So the goal is to have the authors name or company appear in the section 15 if anything they wrote contributed to the work in question. Listing exactly which bit they wrote is unrealistic. Take the Netbook of Feats for example (my project) We list each author and then a list of their feats in the section 15 like this... Brendan Quinn (Author); Accurate Attack, Fearsome Display, Flashy Attack Each feat also has a coppyright line in the feat itself, like this... COPYRIGHT 2001, Carl Cram�r This gives us a huge section 15 because we wanted authors to be identified for their work if it was used elsewhere. I now realise this is probably not realistic. It would be better if we list each author on their own line with a coppyright date in the section 15, like this... Carl Cram�r, Copyright 2001 When someone wants to use a feat they could look at the coppyright line with the feat itself and determine which section 15 lines they should include if they want to use it. That way they could avoid including our entire section 15. And if they did include the entire thing it wouldn't be quite so long. Sigfried Trent Team leader: Netbook of Feats FanCC: Compliance Advisor _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
