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<blockquote data-quote="Enrahim2" data-source="post: 8889940" data-attributes="member: 7039850">(IANAL) Would you? Imagine a oneD&amp;D update of a 1.0a OGC creature. From my understanding the right you have to derive from the 1.0a OGC would be section 4 or 9 of OGC 1.0a. Both are only available to you under condition that it is released under 1.0a (assuming that no other relevant authorised version of OGL exist). From my understanding you then have to identify this derived work as OGC in order to be in compliance with the 1.0a terms.However the creature could also be considered a derived work of the oneD&amp;D SRD. If the lisence for using this aspect of the SRD stipulates that derived work can not be declared open content, publishing this creature would be on breach of the new &quot;GSL&quot;.Making a new OGL allow the OGC to escape the tight restrictions imposed by OGL-1.0a described above. This is what might enable a mechanism of deriving from the OGC. Combined with a mechanism to avoid floatback it would allow dual use like updated creatures without leaking oneD&amp;D into the 1.0a space. I am reading the no longer authorized as an attempt of constructing such a leak back mechanism.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enrahim2, post: 8889940, member: 7039850"] (IANAL) Would you? Imagine a oneD&D update of a 1.0a OGC creature. From my understanding the right you have to derive from the 1.0a OGC would be section 4 or 9 of OGC 1.0a. Both are only available to you under condition that it is released under 1.0a (assuming that no other relevant authorised version of OGL exist). From my understanding you then have to identify this derived work as OGC in order to be in compliance with the 1.0a terms. However the creature could also be considered a derived work of the oneD&D SRD. If the lisence for using this aspect of the SRD stipulates that derived work can not be declared open content, publishing this creature would be on breach of the new "GSL". Making a new OGL allow the OGC to escape the tight restrictions imposed by OGL-1.0a described above. This is what might enable a mechanism of deriving from the OGC. Combined with a mechanism to avoid floatback it would allow dual use like updated creatures without leaking oneD&D into the 1.0a space. I am reading the no longer authorized as an attempt of constructing such a leak back mechanism. [/QUOTE]

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