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<blockquote data-quote="2WS-Steve" data-source="post: 4313328" data-attributes="member: 3289">Wanted to say that the little Q&amp;A on the front page is great and should help tamp down (though never wholly remove) the conspiracy theories and rumors flying about.But this quote from the end, seems to give the wrong impression:I bolded the part that I think could be misleading.Under the d20 STL revocation I'll need to pull the logo off some covers and remove some licensing text from the legal part of my books -- but I'll still be able to sell them.Under a GSL revocation in all likelihood and I figure for almost any product released under it, you're just going to have to pulp everything and scrap the data files for PDFs.At best what you do is pull the D&amp;D logo and hope that regular copyright allows you to have a book packed with references to the D&amp;D rulebooks.&nbsp; But the Q&amp;A already points out how shaky relying on regular copyright is -- and that'd be even worse for a book that wasn't designed to &quot;file the serial numbers off&quot; and was rife with D&amp;D terms such as power names, spell names, and so on.Anyway, I'm almost certain that revoking the GSL will mean that any book released under the GSL is dead, dead, dead.&nbsp; Not at all like the d20 STL.However, you might be able to salvage some material from the GSL'd book to use in a later publication -- though, even in that case due to the &quot;infinite no OGL clause&quot;, you won't be able to recycle that material into an OGL'd book.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2WS-Steve, post: 4313328, member: 3289"] Wanted to say that the little Q&A on the front page is great and should help tamp down (though never wholly remove) the conspiracy theories and rumors flying about. But this quote from the end, seems to give the wrong impression: I bolded the part that I think could be misleading. Under the d20 STL revocation I'll need to pull the logo off some covers and remove some licensing text from the legal part of my books -- but I'll still be able to sell them. Under a GSL revocation in all likelihood and I figure for almost any product released under it, you're just going to have to pulp everything and scrap the data files for PDFs. At best what you do is pull the D&D logo and hope that regular copyright allows you to have a book packed with references to the D&D rulebooks. But the Q&A already points out how shaky relying on regular copyright is -- and that'd be even worse for a book that wasn't designed to "file the serial numbers off" and was rife with D&D terms such as power names, spell names, and so on. Anyway, I'm almost certain that revoking the GSL will mean that any book released under the GSL is dead, dead, dead. Not at all like the d20 STL. However, you might be able to salvage some material from the GSL'd book to use in a later publication -- though, even in that case due to the "infinite no OGL clause", you won't be able to recycle that material into an OGL'd book. [/QUOTE]

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