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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5495104" data-attributes="member: 42582">There is <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=302795" target="_blank">a good thread on this on Industry at the moment</a>.The OGL is a licence that permits the publication of text in which others hold copyright. The d20 SRD is a body of text in which WotC holds copyright, but which they have released under the OGL - which means that others can publish that text, and other text derivative of it, subject to the condition that all these publications also are subject to the OGL (and hence can be published by others).The GSL is primarily a licence concerned not with copyright but with trademarks. It permits publishers other than WotC to publish material using trademarks owned by WotC, on the condition that the publisher respect certain conditions -mostly, that they abide by certain rules about the use of 4e game terminology set out in the 4e SRD, and also that they not replicate any text from the 4e rulebooks - even if such replication would not be in breach of any copyright.It is possible to publish material for either game system without using either licence, but any such publication would have to be particularly careful not to infringe any WotC copyright or to attempt to wrongfully use any WotC trademark.(I should add: I teach law in a leading Australian law school, but am not an IP expert.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5495104, member: 42582"] There is [url=http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=302795]a good thread on this on Industry at the moment[/url]. The OGL is a licence that permits the publication of text in which others hold copyright. The d20 SRD is a body of text in which WotC holds copyright, but which they have released under the OGL - which means that others can publish that text, and other text derivative of it, subject to the condition that all these publications also are subject to the OGL (and hence can be published by others). The GSL is primarily a licence concerned not with copyright but with trademarks. It permits publishers other than WotC to publish material using trademarks owned by WotC, on the condition that the publisher respect certain conditions -mostly, that they abide by certain rules about the use of 4e game terminology set out in the 4e SRD, and also that they not replicate any text from the 4e rulebooks - even if such replication would not be in breach of any copyright. It is possible to publish material for either game system without using either licence, but any such publication would have to be particularly careful not to infringe any WotC copyright or to attempt to wrongfully use any WotC trademark. (I should add: I teach law in a leading Australian law school, but am not an IP expert.) [/QUOTE]

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