Ogl?

[Jemal]

So my friends and I got curious and were looking through all our 3.5 books, and realized.. it ALL says (Even the PHB & DMG) "This product contains NO open game content".

SO, does the OGL no longer apply to anything D&D related, or what?

 

[jdrakeh]

So my friends and I got curious and were looking through all our 3.5 books, and realized.. it ALL says (Even the PHB & DMG) "This product contains NO open game content".

SO, does the OGL no longer apply to anything D&D related, or what?

The core books have never been OGL. NEVER. Only the SRD was OGL (and has been since day one). Unearthed Arcana does include some OGL material (quite a bit actually).

 

[Fifth Element]

The only open content WotC has ever released in book form is much of the content in Unearthed Arcana, and a couple of monsters in MM2.

The SRD is the other open content. The rules in the SRD are also in some books, but the books themselves are not open content.

How can WotC release something that is open content in a book that is not? They own the property, and they issue the license. They can do what they want with it.

 

[Henry]

So my friends and I got curious and were looking through all our 3.5 books, and realized.. it ALL says (Even the PHB & DMG) "This product contains NO open game content".

SO, does the OGL no longer apply to anything D&D related, or what?

To make a long story short, the System Reference Document hosted on Wizards' site contains the same content (more or less) as the three core books, the Expanded Psi Handbook, and the Epic Level Handbook. That's where people legally get it from. Anything in the SRD is open content, but not the actual books, even if the info happens to be duplicated. Make sense?

 

[Ranger REG]

SO, does the OGL no longer apply to anything D&D related, or what?

Just as previous posters stated, the SRD from WotC are OGL-compliant and -applicable.

That and a couple of books, Unearthed Arcana and d20 Modern Weapons Locker.