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Originally Posted by szilard  Now, the new SRD is something different entirely. It is a list of references that you can make to content in Wizards' books. There are specific limits in the GSL as to what you can and can't do with those references. There is nothing in the GSL - as far as I can tell - that limits what you can say about things left out of the SRD. |
Actually the
GSL works quite similarly to the d20
SRD, except it does not actually provide you with the full texts you can use (so no easy copy-pasting from
SRD to products) and instead tells you what
4e References you can use and how you can use them (this is the biggest difference b/w the two SRDs/Licenses):
4.1
4E References. Licensee may reprint the proprietary
4E reference terms, tables, and templates (each, a “
4E Reference”) described in the
4E System Reference Document as presented in the file “
SRD.pdf” that is available for download at
http://www.wizards.com/d20 (“
SRD”), incorporated herein by reference. Licensee acknowledges that Wizards has previously defined each
4E Reference. Licensee will not define, redefine, or alter the definition of any
4E Reference in a Licensed Product. Without limiting the foregoing, Licensee may create original material that adds to the applicability of a
4E Reference, so long as this original material complies with the preceding sentence.
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Originally Posted by szilard Oddly, though, Wizards left things that it had considered product identity under the OGL out of the SRD... and I didn't see any product identity references in the GSL. Is there anything stopping me from publishing under the GSL and, say, redefining the Beholder? If there is, I am missing it... |
The things left out of the
SRD are not "
4e References" and therefore the
GSL does not grant the Licensee the ability to reprint those terms. Beholders etc... are left out of the
4e D&D
SRD, just as they were left out of the d20
SRD, because they are not allowed to be used by Licensee.