>My issue with citations and the OGL is a bit different that the >discussion on citing other gaming books as the source of OGC (and I >don't think this was ever answered even back when we had the long "OGL >and Attribution" discussion on the d20 list).
funny thing is, i'm not sure they *are* different situations. that is, i'm still waiting to be convinced that RPGs are sufficiently different from other works that either citations of them or citations within them are verboten. >So what do you think? Can I use secondary sources for historical >information and release my original (yet derivative) text as OGC if it >is based on someone else's research? I would prefer to use endnotes in >my book, but can I require that of the other publishers that re-use the >content? IMHO: if it requires quote marks, it isn't yours, and you can't designate it OGC. ditto for paraphrases. if the text is sufficiently original to not require quotations, but still require citation, especially if the citation is simply indicating a "see also" or somesuch, you can contribute it to OGC. i don't see any way to demand the citation go with it. open-content development is about the ability to change, not the ability to maintain staticly, so there is rarely a mechanism like this. (though, i think there ought to be, much as some open-content licenses have "invariant" sections that allow you to keep an important secondary bit untampered-with.) and, as a personal note: please use footnotes rather than endnotes. if it's important enough to tell the reader, it's important enough to have handy and easy to read. it's *really* annoying to have to keep a finger in two parts of a book and flip constantly back and forth, just to read it. -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. --Sinclair _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
