--- Faustus von Goethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am curious to hear what Alec says about this.
> 
> Faust

Since you specifically asked, I think Clark's makes a
strong arguement for it being a single license
covering multiple products rather than being a
product-by-product license.

But I also think it's somewhat irrelevant.  Why? 
Because I just can't see any publisher who actively &
intentionally fails to come into compliance for any
single product not also screwing up most of their
other products.  While it may be simple to
accidentally publish an OGL product that isn't in
compliance, it actually requires a decent amount of
effort to remain in non-compliance after being
notified of the initial mistake.  So I can't really
see any publisher who fails to fix their mistakes as
not making similar mistakes in the future.  Meaning
that even if the license is product-by-product, a
publisher who screws up and intentionally doesn't fix
the issue is likely to be facing the problem with most
products they publish, since they clearly don't care
about being in compliance.

Of course one big problem is the apparent fact that
currently it's possible for a fair amount of mistakes
& violations to go unchecked.  Everybody wants to
"play nice" and WotC doesn't have the manpower to be
concerned with anything but the most blatant types of
violations.  So it really doesn't come off as a big
deal if a publisher screws up S.15 or has a less than
clear identification of OGC.  Most of the time the
parties who can take action aren't even likely to notice.

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