Mongoose Publishing did the product, and I may be _COMPLETELY_ wrong about the OGC declaration. I was in a rush at the store, but I was gonna buy the product if it was like the Green Ronin "Pocket Grimoire" products -- a collection of all-OGC (or mostly OGC) stuff. It seemed like a neat idea.
<<This company hasn't marked anything clearly at all. They have fallen
back on that nasty "derivative" idea. So it will serve them right if
other companies take the most expansive possible view of what's
derivative, and reuse anything where they think they can make the claim
stick.>>
I don't know if I'd go that far. That's a good way to get in a lawsuit. They had _some_ kind of OGC declaration, and it would probably be decipherable as to what was and wasn't OGC if you had the stuff in the Section 15 declaration in front of you (that seemed to be handled correctly).
So, they may have failed to handle the OGC declaration in an insufficiently clear fashion they may be in breach, but I don't know if that's a clear allowance to go on a "search and snag" mission through their product unless you are willing to go head-to-head against them in court.
At least poor grad students like me won't be going that route anytime soon. But I am interested in clearing up this misunderstanding, either whether it was due to my overly quick reading or their vague OGC declaration.
Lee
