> Doug Meerschaert > > They _already_ go through the workload. They already (for books whose > rulse are released as OGC) identify what can be OGC and write a > declaration for it. Adding in a copy of the OGL and declarations of OGC > and PI would take, at the most, one page in their final work.
I think you're being too simplistic. Consider what is missing from the SRD. Everything that is not in the SRD (or rather, everything that is present) would need some form of indication. A broad statement at the end could not possibly give them the fine control they have stated they desire, which means they must devise some method of marking everything that is in the SRD while excluding everything that is not. If you were to use a highlighter on your PHB, you would begin to see the magnitude of this task. You would also see what a mess it would make of the work from an artistic perspective. > I can't imagine, in any stretch of reason or logic, how having someone > else go back and mark OGC, and then check it, and then add it to a > seperate file, and then have the web-folks put it on www.wizards.com > once the book is already out, would be more work than just marking OGC > as the books are being written / edited and putting the delcaration & > license it into the book in the first place. I won't dispute that doing it all at once might be easier, but that isn't the only consideration. Every week the book spends in editing is a week that Wizards/Hasbro has to cover the cost of their investment. If that work can be done after the work starts making money, perhaps in between projects, then it is MUCH easier to squeeze into the bottom line. It might not make much difference to small print runs, but once you start talking about the volumes of product that make the OGL a smart move on Wizards part it becomes a significant figure. > They'd have one great big stinking benefit, too: anyone who wants the > rules now has to go out and buy their book, rather than just downloading > the SRD and then having very little reason to spend $40 for rules that > they got, legally, from wizards already. Not much of a benefit considering that anyone who wants a copy of the book now can download a PDF of it for free regardless of the law. Perhaps I'm a bit jaded, but given the 'Napster Phenomena' I don't think that there is a very big population that would respect the difference between a legal free download and an illegal free download. -Brad _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
