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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifelhein" data-source="post: 2418521" data-attributes="member: 14129">This is not a publisher/author thing, this is a legal matter, WotC has made the license, WotC has the copyright of the license and guess what? They can modify the license anytime they see fit, that was the flamed debate that went over when they made license version 1.0a.on the WotC website, in the OGL FAq one can find this:and this:And there is teh base for Monte's crippled content too:On your idea of making it Open after the pdf and never it, that is impossible, Uk, once it is made open, all stances of it are:Anything that is derivative of the SRD in one way or another (using stat blocks, saves, listing levels, and the like is bound to be OGC, I can even say that if you do not want to make it happen i can buy the pdf, copy it to a word file, take out all product identities as stated in the OGL, or just change most of the names, and republish it, you could want to take me to court, but you broke the license in your side, I would be following on mine.I hope you really seek a copyright lawyer before doing this release, Uk, because I doubt you can handle the legal issues involved here, besides, your lawyer should read the D20 and OGL licenses along with a lot of things on them by WotC and the message boards relating it and the yahoo group of those, he would be surprised to know that it is hard to have any game mechanics out of the license.You guys do have a defensible idea of your points, but they do not stand against the expanded position of WotC and the debates that have been goig for ages on those licenses, so that is a problem.I did not take offense on the twisting of words, I read everything here as the most civil post it could possibly be, and I hope peope do the same with me too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Another note, using the d20 logo carries other burdens beyond the OGL use (which comes with the SRD) has, it allows one to reference the PHB, MM, DMG, Psionics, d20 modern books, though, and it requires clear state of requiring the core rules to be used.Using a d20 logo on your book can do wonders for it, though, most people would never know if your product is a new system or a "d20" compatible one, even though the SRD is compatible with the "D20" it is not easy to state that link.As I said, I can go long ways with this... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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