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That's isn't intuitive, though. Why 6 months? The
license says nothing about waiting 6 months. It's still a risky gamble on
the part of the OGC producer to expect that waiting 6 months is a commonly
accepted practice in an environment where anyone can reproduce OGC.
Users on my end are not going to be business people they will be parents,
teachers and gamers sharing information where, once in a while, someone may
come up with broadly useful material that gets distributed to the
masses. I ask this in a sincere manner: Is it my responsibility to
communicate to my users that some companies may feel slighted if they use their
OGC? Until now I didn't see a need.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:08
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Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] courtesy &
OGC
In a message dated 8/9/2004 5:21:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I
strongly encourage OGC producers to plan for people to use their OGC
in
the way that is spelled out in the license and to not rely on your
current
vision of courtesy.
The only point I disagree with you on, is that it makes good social and
economic sense to ask within the first 6+ months after a product's release if
you are going to reuse a big chunk. You are cutting someone's throat and
your own if you sink their products early on. What will happen is next
time around they will be forced to OGC little or nothing to make sure they
don't lose their shirt on selling OGL-covered products.
I just feel that if people are planning their business model around more
than 6-12 months of "courtesy" protection, then they should just PI it, and
shouldn't blame others for using the OGC as licensed. At that point, it
is the OGC licensor that is sticking his neck out there rather than the OGC
user who is going out of his way to hurt the licensor.
Lee
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