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<blockquote data-quote="HarbingerX" data-source="post: 4037695" data-attributes="member: 53951">More wild speculationBased on rumor, innuendo and vast amounts of lurking, I too feel expert enough to opine on this subject...Releasing items under the OGL does not remove your copyright on the material - it only restricts your ability to prevent others from using it without your permission. So anyone who has released their original work under the OGL is free to release it and attach a different license. What you can't do is take someone else's OGL content and remove the license, so including any SRD material in your release becomes impossible.We know that the terms of the GSL will be more restrictive than the OGL, so there may be material that is not compatible with the GSL. I suspect that there will be restrictions on the ability to republish other people's material released under the GSL - giving WotC and 3rd-party publishers better control over their intellectual property.What is really wild speculation is if there will be terms to prevent the publication of other rules systems or wildly different settings (sci-fi, horror, etc.) I don't see how they could craft language to that effect that would hold up to legal scrutiny but lawyers are paid well to work that out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HarbingerX, post: 4037695, member: 53951"] [b]More wild speculation[/b] [I]Based on rumor, innuendo and vast amounts of lurking, I too feel expert enough to opine on this subject...[/I] Releasing items under the OGL does not remove your copyright on the material - it only restricts your ability to prevent others from using it without your permission. So anyone who has released [B]their original work[/B] under the OGL is free to release it and attach a different license. What you can't do is take someone else's OGL content and remove the license, so including any SRD material in your release becomes impossible. We know that the terms of the GSL will be more restrictive than the OGL, so there may be material that is not compatible with the GSL. I suspect that there will be restrictions on the ability to republish other people's material released under the GSL - giving WotC and 3rd-party publishers better control over their intellectual property. What is really wild speculation is if there will be terms to prevent the publication of other rules systems or wildly different settings (sci-fi, horror, etc.) I don't see how they could craft language to that effect that would hold up to legal scrutiny but lawyers are paid well to work that out. [/QUOTE]

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