From: Hal Whitewyrm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Am I wrong Yes. Imagine hypothetical situation: I publish Ryan's World Arms & Equipment Guide My section 15 says: 15. COPYRIGHT NOTICE Open Game License v 1.0a Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc. System Rules Document Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Cool Weapons Copyright 2003, Iron Fist of Rulership Publishing, Inc. Clark @ Necromancer decides to use some of my OGC in an upcoming product, "Creature Collection III: Once More, This Time With Feeling!" His section 15 says: 15. COPYRIGHT NOTICE Open Game License v 1.0a Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc. System Rules Document Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Cool Weapons Copyright 2003, Iron Fist of Rulership Publishing, Inc. A Whole Bunch of Monsters Copyright 2003, Necromancer Games Now you come along. You use OGC from "CCIII:OMTTWF". Your Section 15 includes >everything< in the "CCIII:OMTTWF" Section 15 (plus your own declarations, if any), regardless of whether, in your opinion, any of it uses content from my work or not. The only exception to this rule is that if >the same< declartion appears in multiple sources, it is not necessary to duplicate the entries. So you only need to have one line that says: System Rules Document Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. Regardless of how many times it might appear in the source material you're using. But you >DON'T< get to make an arbitrary decision not to include a unique entry in someone else's Section 15 declaration. Ryan _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
