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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 4945054" data-attributes="member: 15538">An observation: many web sites with an OGL declaration play fast and loose with the copyright declaration requirement:IANAL, but I think at the very least this means any copied or donated OGC needs a copyright declaration, and further, web site compendiums need their own copyright notice (which will be copied forward if anyone uses the website as a source of OGC - which is probably unwise in the case of a wiki anyway because of the possibility of illegal contributions).A second observation: Publishers can easily easily taint the OGC with any text they want in the Copyright notice section, however self-serving or irrelevant. A third observation: the requirement to reprint the exact text means that OGL works that encompass several sources will have the effect of making OGL products based on them increasingly encumbered by longer and longer copyright declarations. Thus, from a community standpoint, it is perhaps advisable for publishers who sincerely wish to contribute to the general fund to designate parts of their work as Product Identity and then licensing it to the public under less constricting terms. I am not sure of the precise legal requirements of doing such a thing.</blockquote>