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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 8754170" data-attributes="member: 6680772">The material in the 5e SRD that was released under the OGL is open in perpetuity. WotC can't claw it back. The only way for WotC to &quot;cancel&quot; the OGL for the next iteration of the game is to make significant changes to the game play, like replacing feats with 4e-type powers, and then not releasing those changes under the OGL. (This is what WotC did with 4e.) Any changes drastic enough to render the 5e SRD ineffective for the new iteration would be by definition drastic enough that the game would no longer be backward compatible.None of the changes in the playtest materials, even if all of them made it to the final game, are drastic enough to do that. Even if none of those changes were incorporated in the 5e SRD, they could very easily be reverse engineered using the existing SRD. WotC can copyright specific text, but they can't copyright selectable backgrounds made by combining a feat, skills, and ASI.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 8754170, member: 6680772"] The material in the 5e SRD that was released under the OGL is open in perpetuity. WotC can't claw it back. The only way for WotC to "cancel" the OGL for the next iteration of the game is to make significant changes to the game play, like replacing feats with 4e-type powers, and then not releasing those changes under the OGL. (This is what WotC did with 4e.) Any changes drastic enough to render the 5e SRD ineffective for the new iteration would be by definition drastic enough that the game would no longer be backward compatible. None of the changes in the playtest materials, even if all of them made it to the final game, are drastic enough to do that. Even if none of those changes were incorporated in the 5e SRD, they could very easily be reverse engineered using the existing SRD. WotC can copyright specific text, but they can't copyright selectable backgrounds made by combining a feat, skills, and ASI. [/QUOTE]

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