<<2) Can the author of Open Content really make a request like this?
Obviously he can since he just did, but I'm not sure what his recourse is if
the publisher decides not to mark his content any differently than they
normally do. Doesn't the OGL pretty much grant me the right to mark your
work as I see fit once you've released it as long as I comply with the other
terms of the OGL?
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Sure, as long as you are in compliance with the OGL. I think Mongoose is not and is working to rectify this to their credit. The OGL requires a clear indication of OGC. Mongoose appropriated verbatim text from some parties and yet had a vague disclaimer that made it impossible to tell that they'd appropriated 3rd party text verbatim.
A statement that "thinks derived from other OGC are OGC" is so bloody vague that it would take a person having all the works in Section 15, chained across dozens of products, to make it back to products that only derived from the SRD to ascertain what is and is not precisely OGC.
Lee
