DM:

I was being hypothetical.  If I ever publish my own content, more than
likely it will be all OGC, with maybe a proper name PI'd.  I deal with PI
issues at CMP and in PCGen, so my continued improvement on the understanding
of the OGL is always beneficial.  All I was trying to understand was the
whole 'consideration' thing brought up a while.  If you can PI everything,
you aren't really giving anything up under the OGL.  Maybe a 30 day cure
period?  I'm stretching for understanding.  I really don't want to pay more
to my lawyer. :p  I remember him mentioning that reuse of my exact phrasings
was part of my 'payment' to use the license.  He used the word consideration
once, but I, not knowing it was a legal term, did a 'Huh?' and he switched
to payment and trade.  Have to trade something for a contract to be binding.

The newly fleshed out 'Consideration' seemed to put my mind in a tizzy.  I
guess it is one of those grey areas of the hypothetical.  I'd consider those
who do that sort of thing to be leaches, but I don't see it being that big a
deal from my standpoint, except that PCGen prob. won't be doing much with
that kind of content, since myself and our OGL chief have to sign off that
we are in the legal clear.  If OGC and PI isn't clearly marked for us to
feel comfortable, we tend to just leave those alone..  With CMP, Mynex
handles the details of PI permission and so forth.  All I have to do is make
sure I get the PI marked correctly and make sure he knows my concerns.
Kinda nice to not have the ultimate responsibility. :)

Thanks for the lessons, folks.

Andrew McDougall
a.k.a. Tir Gwaith
PCGen Data SB and BoD
Code Monkey Publishing PCGen Content Manager


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