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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 862757" data-attributes="member: 813">Um, you are confused? If you publish a work that says "Chapter 1 is OGC". Anybody (and I mean anybody) can take chapter 1 of that work and include it verbatim in any other work as long as they include the OGL along with a probably updated section 15. Where you may be confused is that it is considered proper etiquette among d20 publishers to ask before using OGC. There is no requirement for this. It is merely a custom to do so.Closed content in WotC books has nothing to do with OGC and should not be included in a conversation about OGC. If WotC uses a feat from one of my PDFs in the 3.5 PHB they had better include a proper Section 15 in the copy of the OGL they print in the book. They are not exempt from the license (having neither carte blanche nor savoir faire in these situations <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ). They could contact me requesting a separate license to the material but that has nothing to do with the OGL.The other confusion you may be suffering is from is that Mongoose uses an OGC declaration (that they have said they may change) which does an end run around the license back into the copyright realm. This confuses the issue and is the argument Sigil said he didn't want to rehash above. I don't want to rehash it either (and I hope they find my attempted explanation a fair representation).</blockquote>

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