----- Original Message ----- From: "Spike Y Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:17:58 EST > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > If there are PI licenses, then you probably have to specifically > > note which portions of the text are PI and belong to someone else. > > > > So, for example, let's say I come up with a superhero called the > > "Great Guffaw". I PI his name and his background. I give > > somebody a PI license. 20 iterations down the road a book comes > > out under the OGL. If it has the "Great Guffaw" in it, it should > > probably note that it is the PI of Lee Valentine, used > > with permission, derived from "Lee's Book of Superheroes". > > > > How would somebody not know that this was my PI?!! > > Unfortunately, not all PI licenses will follow that form. If the > license only requires you to say "PI taken from Book X is used with > permission," the people further down the OGC chain won't know what > bits of the book are PI. In the case of The Great Guffaw (if your PI > license took this form), the third party would know that there's some > PI in Book Y that was taken from "Lee's Book of Superheroes," but he > wouldn't know exactly what that PI happened to be. > > (And the suggestion that he buy a copy of both Book Y and "Lee's Book > of Superheroes" and then spend some hours line-by-line cross-checking > the two to see what material is common to the two of them is > ridiculous.) Shame we don't have that online OGC library, Spike. It would probably take about 10 seconds, per rule, if you could Google the name of a rule and find out the origional author and book. David Shepheard _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
