> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Martin L. Shoemaker > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] Potation? > > As you said: it's not a typo, but rather an unfortunate word > choice. You want "obscure legal term"? The word's not used in > a legal sense on any Web site I can find so far EXCEPT FOR > OGL licenses. The exceptions are two pages that look to have > been translated from other languages, and I can't really get > the sense from them.
Oh, and here's a pretty relevant appearance: the GPL! http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/Software/Treasure/COPYING 1. Definitions: (a)"Contributors" means the copyright and/or trademark owners who have contributed Open Game Content; (b)"Derivative Material" means copyrighted material including derivative works and translations (including into other computer languages), potation, modification, correction, addition, extension, upgrade, improvement, compilation, abridgment or other form in which an existing work may be recast, transformed or adapted; I also found an unclear use from 1871: http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/UNAC/pages/unac0009.htm >From a hospital employee manual: http://www.chadronhospital.com/employees/benefits.htm Martin L. Shoemaker Microsoft MVP: Visual C# [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tablet UML: The UML tool you don't have to learn! Now for sale at http://www.TabletUML.com! _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l