> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Clark Peterson > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 8:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] Publishing under the OGL > > I see what is hanging you up. Maybe you should think > of your product like this. Any product you create is > copyright you. At then end of your product, you > designate what is OGC. So really, you are making a PHB > and an SRD, if you take my meaning. The book your > print is the non-open content. You then designate > "your SRD" in the back of the book when you designate > your open content. Does it help to think about it like > that? Does that help you not think "hey wait, I NEVER > made a non-open version, so I dont own anything." > Because you did.
That helps. My brain is deep in the middle of UML and Patterns right now, and it's starting to leak out my ears. So comprehension is slow. One other thing occurs to me: _I_ can use _my_ original, non-derivative content, period, end of sentence, no dispute possible. So even if I opened my work, I have every right to derive a work which is the exact same text, minus the OGL. I can even create such a work by the simple act of using scissors to cut the OGL out of a copy of the work, OR by emailing a copy of my work without the OGL. I am not bound by the OGL in that derived work at all. And then I can license that derived work any way I want, and the people I license to have never come within sniffing distance of the open version. It's in essence an inverse of releasing the PHB followed by the SRD. > You create a product: your book. You then at the end > indicate that it is open content. So even though they come in the same binding, the book stands on its own, and then the license modifies the book by adding terms of reuse. Or to speak to the Pattern-developer subset of the audience, collectively the book and the license form an example of the Decorator pattern at work: the book is a kind of content, and it can be decorated with the license, rendering it a new kind of content; but the two stand separate. (Sorry, I warned you: UML and Patterns -- and sleep deprivation -- are taking over my brain...) Martin L. Shoemaker Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting, Software Design and UML Training [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.MartinLShoemaker.com http://www.UMLBootCamp.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
