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Message: <blockquote data-quote="madelf" data-source="post: 4324873" data-attributes="member: 15415">Unless WotC states in the new OGL that content released under the OGL may also be used under the GSL. Then they don't have to alter the GSL to allow use of both licenses. The GSL only works with the GSL, and the OGL works with either the OGL or the GSL. And you have easy one-way conversion (to 4th Edition) of any open content, without the risk of backward conversion (from 4th Edition to 3.X). They don't have to change the GSL to do what I'm talking about. They could just revise the OGL to state that a copy of the OGL does not need to be included in the product if (and presumably only if) the content is being used under the GSL. How would it be any different than getting someone's direct permission to use their IP?Again, the GSL says that a publisher may convert OGL products they have previously published to 4th Edition. They may feel that having used the content under the OGL previously (thereby essentially creating a new product of their own) that already constitutes such permission. If it turns out that they're (legally) wrong, a quick revision of the OGL makes them right.Well, your insistence that they "can't do that" sure seemed to contradict what I've been saying.And I don't see how anyone's rights are restricted any more than they already would be. The GSL would simply be used in the same way the OGL already is. And I do suspect that just such (one-way) use is probably what WotC intended.</blockquote>

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