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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 2138322" data-attributes="member: 10201"><p>Just about impossible, without the collusion of the original producers of the OGC. Almost every user of the WotC OGL declares their product names and company names as PI. You can't use PI without permission. Therefore, it's generally impossible to identify the source of reused OGC when reusing it. It's one of the biggest flaws in the WotC OGL, IMHO: it not only fails to demand a proper chain of credit, but it makes one just about impossible even if you want to do it. You *can't* give proper credit for others' work under the WotC OGL.</p><p></p><p>As to extracting the material, just for the greater good of gamers everywhere: the main reason it's happened with the D20SRD and not other producers is that it's already in digital form, so you don't have to scan or retype it all. As evidence of this, GoO has released much of their OGC as digital files, and those files *have* been collated into free PDFs and the like, just like the D20SRD (though not by as many people).</p><p></p><p>On indexing OGC: that's the point of ...damn, can't remember the name of it. Anyway, there is a group trying to do just that, but they're mostly relying on [sparse] volunteer labor, and haven't gotten much help from the publishers, so it's slow going.</p><p></p><p>Which gets me, finally, to the idea of reusing/releasing other companies' OGC in PDF/HTML/whatever collations. I'm working on it, but unlikely to do just a straight OGC extract of another game, 'cause it's not worth the effort. Though, if i end up using as much of Arcana Unearthed and Spycraft as i think i will for the basis of one of my projects, i may have scanned/retyped all,or nearly all, the OGC from each of them, and then i *might* get around to releasing just some OGC extracts, while i'm at it. Or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 2138322, member: 10201"] Just about impossible, without the collusion of the original producers of the OGC. Almost every user of the WotC OGL declares their product names and company names as PI. You can't use PI without permission. Therefore, it's generally impossible to identify the source of reused OGC when reusing it. It's one of the biggest flaws in the WotC OGL, IMHO: it not only fails to demand a proper chain of credit, but it makes one just about impossible even if you want to do it. You *can't* give proper credit for others' work under the WotC OGL. As to extracting the material, just for the greater good of gamers everywhere: the main reason it's happened with the D20SRD and not other producers is that it's already in digital form, so you don't have to scan or retype it all. As evidence of this, GoO has released much of their OGC as digital files, and those files *have* been collated into free PDFs and the like, just like the D20SRD (though not by as many people). On indexing OGC: that's the point of ...damn, can't remember the name of it. Anyway, there is a group trying to do just that, but they're mostly relying on [sparse] volunteer labor, and haven't gotten much help from the publishers, so it's slow going. Which gets me, finally, to the idea of reusing/releasing other companies' OGC in PDF/HTML/whatever collations. I'm working on it, but unlikely to do just a straight OGC extract of another game, 'cause it's not worth the effort. Though, if i end up using as much of Arcana Unearthed and Spycraft as i think i will for the basis of one of my projects, i may have scanned/retyped all,or nearly all, the OGC from each of them, and then i *might* get around to releasing just some OGC extracts, while i'm at it. Or not. [/QUOTE]
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