--- Spike Y Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:58:35 -0800 (PST) > Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Crippling OGC causes the re-user to change the name. This makes it > > impossible for people reading the re-use to have a lot harder > > time tracing the OGL back to its original source, effectively > > severing it from it's origination... which is exactly the > > opposite of the intention of the crippler. > > PIing the spell names with a generous reuse license gives the reuser > three options: > > 1) Comply with the terms of the PI license. > 2) Reuse the OGC but come up with a new name for the spell. > 3) Skip using the OGC entirely, and either write something similar > himself, or search for something similar elsewhere that doesn't have > any entanglements. > > It's only if he picks 2 or 3 that the original publisher's intent is > thwarted. And if his intent was to deliberately cripple the OGC in > order to discourage borrowing of any kind (something that has been > suggested on this list has happened in the past)(although not > necessarily related to this specific case), then 3 would make the > original publisher happy as well.
3 is unlikely, because the only reason the re-user wants to re-use is because the OGC is better and/or easier than writing new material. So 2 is chosen, and the originator's intent is thwarted. ===== **************************************************************** "Let me be clear: Analysts differed on several important aspects of these programs and those debates were spelled out in the [national intelligence] estimate [of october 2002]. They never said there was an imminent threat. " -- CIA director George Tenet, 2/5/2004, Georgetown University **************************************************************** ""Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. . . . The terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country or any other." -- "President" George Bush, 3/17/2003, 48-hour warning to Saddam Hussein **************************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
