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<blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4567169" data-attributes="member: 70778">Also personally, I don't like the section about &quot;redefine terms&quot; that gives WotC the rights to public domain names such as elf/etc to dictate to me how I would describe or detail them.Not having done OGL content it doesn't bother me but, I see claiming ownership in any form of public domain terms as a violation and makes the GSL not even legal.Now D&amp;D has some staple, sacred-cows, that must be there for looks, and I think it is good to have these &quot;demihumans&quot; as part of the core, but the problem lies in the fact that they are public domain things: elves, dwarves, HUMANS!Had they wanted the GSL to really protect their IP, then they needed to create from whole cloth completely new races. Not include elf at all, but have Eladrin in its place. If for some reason I actually might be insane enough to like Nordic mythology and want my elves to resemble those from it, I should not have to supplant some additional word to &quot;elf&quot; to prevent from &quot;redefining terms&quot; that would constitute some breach of the contract and license.That personally is one big thing I am looking at in regards to the problems of the GSL, as well as other things like what was mentioned in the quoted post here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="justanobody, post: 4567169, member: 70778"] Also personally, I don't like the section about "redefine terms" that gives WotC the rights to public domain names such as elf/etc to dictate to me how I would describe or detail them. Not having done OGL content it doesn't bother me but, I see claiming ownership in any form of public domain terms as a violation and makes the GSL not even legal. Now D&D has some staple, sacred-cows, that must be there for looks, and I think it is good to have these "demihumans" as part of the core, but the problem lies in the fact that they are public domain things: elves, dwarves, HUMANS! Had they wanted the GSL to really protect their IP, then they needed to create from whole cloth completely new races. Not include elf at all, but have Eladrin in its place. If for some reason I actually might be insane enough to like Nordic mythology and want my elves to resemble those from it, I should not have to supplant some additional word to "elf" to prevent from "redefining terms" that would constitute some breach of the contract and license. That personally is one big thing I am looking at in regards to the problems of the GSL, as well as other things like what was mentioned in the quoted post here. [/QUOTE]

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