[Ogf-l] Oh yeah, where PI?

[Githianki]

I almost forgot. Anyone have an opinion on where PI has to be declared?  It must be clearly identified where it is presented, but can it be declared outside of work which has OGC and therefore the a copy of the OGL? Could you put up a web page that said "the following is PI:", even if it was not part of a product distribution?   I feel it is easy to tell what is OGC because all OGC comes with the OGL. It is also unlikely you will accidentally use OGC without credit because you basically need to have a copy to derive from that copy (by the discussions I have seen here this is a general truth but not valid in all cases by any means.  It is more like an observation of the process.) But... How can you avoid accidental use of PI if you have no idea where it is?  If you don't own all the products, and there is no required central location or even notification procedure, what can you do?  I realize that having more complex declarations of PI than a monster name goes a long way to avoiding likely infringements, but alec's interpretations aside regarding derivation, how does one research this stuff?   Like I said you are likely to have documented references for OGC you are using but how can you be sure someone else hasn't made up something extremely similar to yours and PI'ed it.  This would really suck if you had already gone to the printer or something.  The problem would get worse as the amount of material grows so whileit may not be much of a problem now, I can definitely see this happening somewhere down the line. Anyone, have a suggestion for this?   Even if PI can only be declared in association with an OGC distribution (as opposed to a separate web page or such) who will be able to check everywhere? -Alex Silva