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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kevin Brennan" data-source="post: 3981908" data-attributes="member: 35183">No, actually it doesn't.WotC is the copyright holder of the content released as the 3.5 SRD under the OGL. As the original copyright holder, they may produce derivative works of that material without that material itself being open. Similarly, Green Ronin can produce Freeport stuff without invoking the OGL to do so, Sword and Sorcery can do something with Scarred Lands, and so forth. You only need the OGL to use somebody else's content. WotC has the legal right to produce a completely closed 4e. Now, it's possible that someone could clone it under the OGL, but that's a different question. As for the rest of it, you're right that if the new OGL is a "version" of the existing OGL then people can legally republish anything released under it using the existing license. My assumption is that the new OGL will be set up in a way to ensure that it's not legally the same license. On the other hand, it's also possible that the new SRD will be sufficiently limited in scope that it won't matter.</blockquote>