szilard
First Post
The SRD seems to serve near-opposite purposes under the GSL and the OGL.
The 3.x-era SRD was a listing of open content that you could use with very few restrictions. Things that were not in the SRD but were in Wizards' books were considered closed content and could not be republished under the OGL. This included some things that Wizards claimed as product identity, such as the Beholder and Mind Flayer.
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.
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...
-Stuart
The 3.x-era SRD was a listing of open content that you could use with very few restrictions. Things that were not in the SRD but were in Wizards' books were considered closed content and could not be republished under the OGL. This included some things that Wizards claimed as product identity, such as the Beholder and Mind Flayer.
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.
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...
-Stuart