Hi >> I suspect, now that I'm musing on it, that one minor failure of the >> OGL is the ease of hiding Section 15 data -- as a producer, you >> really want the consumer to see your name on all your OGL.
>> Amusingly enough, one of the author's whose OGC had been reprinted in >> Pocket Grimoire Divine cornered me at a con to point out that I hadn't >> asked his permission to put his name in the design credits on page 1. I >> try to give credit where it's due, and it never occurred to me that >> someone might take issue the idea. Of course, I had the publisher's OK to >> use the material, but it still threw me for a loop. This has been an issue that I have wondered about for some time. The OGL requires you to copy the copyright notice of any other OGC that you use in your OGC product. However that copyright notice does not contain OGC, in fact it contains trademarks that I would have thought every publishers wants to protect, i.e. the name of the publishers themselves! In fact looking at the licence, clauses 6 and 7 are contradictory! How can I copy the copyright notice which contains the publishers name which is more than likely PI and then not use that very same PI to indicate compatibility. Surely including the publishers name in section 15 does just that, it implies endorsement! I have absolutely no problem with other publishers using the OGC that I have created, in fact I would actively encourage it, but I have some severe reservations about them using my company name without my permission! This is so obviously open to abuse! Imagine a OGL printed on the inside cover nice and small except for section 15 which is printed in really big, bold fonts so that all the company names stand out. To an uninitiated consumer this would clearly indicate that these companies had some say in the production of the publication had endorsed it! I cannot see a clear way of resolving this but I would like to know what others think of this. Cheers Mike Dymond Managing Director Myriador Ltd. a: Flat 1 The Old School House, 25 River Street, Pewsey, Wiltshire, SN9 5DH, UK m: 07900 042 293 t: 01672 564 254 f: 01672 564 254 - please phone first e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.myriador.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
