Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Fractalwave" data-source="post: 407208" data-attributes="member: 6399">As I mentioned in one of my other posts that was probably too longwinded for some, nobody has to conform to the OGL under one condition...If E-Tools enters in a separately negotiated licensed with the actual owner of the material that they wish to include, then the OGL does not apply.In effect, it would be the E-Tools people negotiating with all the copyright holders for a particular book for the license/right to use their material. The problem with doing this is then you have to enter separate negotiations and agreements with all the different people for all the different books.This is the one thing that the OGL does for you. You don't have to enter a bunch of different legal agreements and incur those costs to use material declared as open.Does that mean that E-Tools folk won't do this? Nope. But in my opinion, unless the bulk of the book is NOT declared as OGC they'd be foolish to do so. It's a waste of money.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fractalwave, post: 407208, member: 6399"] As I mentioned in one of my other posts that was probably too longwinded for some, nobody has to conform to the OGL under one condition... If E-Tools enters in a separately negotiated licensed with the actual owner of the material that they wish to include, then the OGL does not apply. In effect, it would be the E-Tools people negotiating with all the copyright holders for a particular book for the license/right to use their material. The problem with doing this is then you have to enter separate negotiations and agreements with all the different people for all the different books. This is the one thing that the OGL does for you. You don't have to enter a bunch of different legal agreements and incur those costs to use material declared as open. Does that mean that E-Tools folk won't do this? Nope. But in my opinion, unless the bulk of the book is NOT declared as OGC they'd be foolish to do so. It's a waste of money. [/QUOTE]

Verification