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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4097031" data-attributes="member: 1054">The GSL *can't* interact with the OGL.The best WOTC can do is place the 3x SRD under the GSL so that companies have an easier time converting. They can do this with the proviso that the GSL'ed material only be used for 4e supplements or other limits.There's no way I can see, legally, for the GSL to 'incorporate' OGL material generically. You can't decree that material released under one license is now considered to be released under another. If you could, I could just write &quot;Lizard's Lovely License&quot; and decree material released under the GSL is now covered under the LLL. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />All material currently under the OGL will not be under the GSL unless the current copyright holders choose to release it individually, and given the way the GSL is shaping up, I can't see as they'd have a motive to do so (WOTC might be an exception). This means anything which derives from third party content can't be 'upgraded', except by the copyright holder, and books which have content from mixed sources are pretty much unusable. I strongly suspect there will be no viral component to the GSL. Necromancer might be able to voluntarily open its stuff -- not sure -- but it won't be automatic, so the utility of the TOH to third parties will be negligable. While it wouldn't surprise me it WOTC gave permission to Necromancer to use old IP, I would be very shocked if they allowed it to be 'open for 4e', so no one else will be using Flinds or Flumphs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4097031, member: 1054"] The GSL *can't* interact with the OGL. The best WOTC can do is place the 3x SRD under the GSL so that companies have an easier time converting. They can do this with the proviso that the GSL'ed material only be used for 4e supplements or other limits. There's no way I can see, legally, for the GSL to 'incorporate' OGL material generically. You can't decree that material released under one license is now considered to be released under another. If you could, I could just write "Lizard's Lovely License" and decree material released under the GSL is now covered under the LLL. :) All material currently under the OGL will not be under the GSL unless the current copyright holders choose to release it individually, and given the way the GSL is shaping up, I can't see as they'd have a motive to do so (WOTC might be an exception). This means anything which derives from third party content can't be 'upgraded', except by the copyright holder, and books which have content from mixed sources are pretty much unusable. I strongly suspect there will be no viral component to the GSL. Necromancer might be able to voluntarily open its stuff -- not sure -- but it won't be automatic, so the utility of the TOH to third parties will be negligable. While it wouldn't surprise me it WOTC gave permission to Necromancer to use old IP, I would be very shocked if they allowed it to be 'open for 4e', so no one else will be using Flinds or Flumphs. [/QUOTE]

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