From: "Nicholas H.M. Caldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So is it permissible for The Guild Companion to simply add new sections to
> our front page?
Here's my opinion on the matter.
If you have a "magazine" web site, being a collection of articles all linked
together thorugh a home page or an article index and presented as a unit of
content, all served from the same fully qualified domain name, my belief is
that in the long run, the courts will decide that you've got one work, and
all that content has to comply with the terms of the license.
One simple way I could see to get around this problem would be this:
You locate the Open Game Content on a second server with a second fully
qualified domain name. Instead of serving pages and/or files from your
"magazine" server, you link to that content on the second server. As long
as you don't present that content in a frame within the content from the
magazine server, and don't attempt to associate that content as a "part" of
the magazine, I don't think you're creating a single work, and I don't
believe the courts will either. The more separation between you, your
magazine server, and the OGC server, the better.
> Do we have to include a copy of the OGL appended to every OGL article or
> can we simply refer to a standard gold copy held on the server?
My preference would be that you include a link to the OGL on every page
containing Open Game Content. I don't think you need to include the full
text of the OGL on every page containing OGC.
The intent of that term of the license is to ensure that each person who
receives Open Game Content will know what to do with it and what rights they
gain to copy, modify and distribute it.
Ryan
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