I've been working on some final checklists, ensuring a product I'm working on is fully compliant with both ORC and the Paizo Inc. Compatibility License and am running into a bit of confusion around proper placement of the Compatibility text:
"Your Product must include the following text as its own paragraph and in a legible size and color on the title page or on any one page preceding the title page." [Emphasis Added]. Title Page is not defined in the https://paizo.com/licenses/compatibility document.
However from common usage I would expect this to be a non-artistic, fairly minimal page that has Title, Author &/or Company, maybe a publisher imprint. I'm not used to seeing any amount of extra legalese on a "Title Page" by that definition. But practically no Paizo product, or 3p product I've looked at has a Title Page under that more common-use/academic definition. So I assume Title Page must have some alternate definition that's assumed within the TTRPG industry that I can't find.
Paizo Products (which of course don't need a compatibility license), tend to follow a pattern of a title only (sometimes with art, sometimes not), no author, no extra legalese as the first inside-page on Hardcovers. And author/credit information as a small sidebar text to the Table of Contents/intro for hard or softcovers. There could be space on such a page for the compatibility notice, but that's sometimes after the title page, so it would feel in violation for a non-Paizo product. And from my limited 3p library, I see at least some putting the compatibility notice on the final ORC or OGL license pages. Of course those are older products, from large companies that might have their own agreements anyways or a different version of the license at that time. But if those ORC/OGL pages also typically have credits and copyright information, maybe those count as Title Pages? (which would seem a bit counter-intuitive to me, but....)
My current approach has a front cover (where I plan to put the compatibility logo), and then page 2(technically inside cover if printed, but PDF only at present) with the title, TOC, and intro text/how to use this adventure. I'm currently placing the compatibility statement at the bottom of this page. This is the first non-cover page, so I don't see a way to place it earlier, but am not sure if I have to separate out a simpler title page in order to comply.