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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4038280" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I may have misunderstood what it is that you're interested in. But I'll try and restate my points - which may or may not be relevant to your concern!</p><p></p><p>1) If I want to publish OGC works that derive from another party's OGC, one way to do so is via the OGL. It may not be the only way. For example, if another party's OGC is in the public domain (perhaps because they have waived copyright, or copyright has expired, or the material is, for whatever reason, not copyrightable) then you could publish that OGC, or indeed your own OGC that derived from it, without needing the OGL to license such publication.</p><p></p><p>2) If I want to publish under the GSL, it seems (from what Pramas is saying) that I may be prohibited from simultaneously publishing OGC. Now, it seems that some people on this thread have interpreted that to mean <em>prohibited from simultaneously relying, in the same work, for authority to publish arising under the OGL</em>. But it seems more likely, to me, that if WoTC wanted to achieve the goal identified by Prams, then they would simply include in the GSL a clause along the lines of "No work published under this licence may include any content which has previously been published under the OGL, and/or distributed as OGC."</p><p></p><p>As I said, I'm unsure now whether or not these thoughts are relevant to your concerns.</p><p></p><p>But if I am correct about (2), then the suggestion that ToH would be immune because Necromancer does not need to rely on the OGL to republish its own OGC would be mistaken.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 4038280, member: 42582"] I may have misunderstood what it is that you're interested in. But I'll try and restate my points - which may or may not be relevant to your concern! 1) If I want to publish OGC works that derive from another party's OGC, one way to do so is via the OGL. It may not be the only way. For example, if another party's OGC is in the public domain (perhaps because they have waived copyright, or copyright has expired, or the material is, for whatever reason, not copyrightable) then you could publish that OGC, or indeed your own OGC that derived from it, without needing the OGL to license such publication. 2) If I want to publish under the GSL, it seems (from what Pramas is saying) that I may be prohibited from simultaneously publishing OGC. Now, it seems that some people on this thread have interpreted that to mean [i]prohibited from simultaneously relying, in the same work, for authority to publish arising under the OGL[/i]. But it seems more likely, to me, that if WoTC wanted to achieve the goal identified by Prams, then they would simply include in the GSL a clause along the lines of "No work published under this licence may include any content which has previously been published under the OGL, and/or distributed as OGC." As I said, I'm unsure now whether or not these thoughts are relevant to your concerns. But if I am correct about (2), then the suggestion that ToH would be immune because Necromancer does not need to rely on the OGL to republish its own OGC would be mistaken. [/QUOTE]
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