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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 4116866" data-attributes="member: 32164">You're right. The layman's reading is &quot;none whatsoever.&quot; Except that it's probably not that clear-cut.As I said, I'm not a lawyer, but I'd bet one could come up with a legitimate argument that WotC preserved authorship control over any material derived from its SRD. One could also probably come up with a legitimate argument that no such control exists.Which one a court would buy into is, I think, an open question.But it's probably not really relevant. WotC doesn't need access to (for example) Green Ronin's material to make much of the relevant content available for conversion to Fourth Edition. What couldn't they release? Well, there's a few third-party monsters (those not derived from 1e and 2e ones), feats, and classes. In other words, while they'd lose access to some specific third edition stuff, very little of that matters.I do think it's highly likely you won't see the GSL allow the publication of character creation rules, so variant PHBs (like Arcana Evolved or Iron Heroes) and derivative systems that are complete games in and of themselves like Castles &amp; Crusades, Spycraft, Mutants &amp; Masterminds, True 20, Game of Thrones and the Pathfinder RPG probably can't be published under the terms of the GSL.Quite frankly, I'm amazed WotC ever allowed it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 4116866, member: 32164"] You're right. The layman's reading is "none whatsoever." Except that it's probably not that clear-cut. As I said, I'm not a lawyer, but I'd bet one could come up with a legitimate argument that WotC preserved authorship control over any material derived from its SRD. One could also probably come up with a legitimate argument that no such control exists. Which one a court would buy into is, I think, an open question. But it's probably not really relevant. WotC doesn't need access to (for example) Green Ronin's material to make much of the [i]relevant[/i] content available for conversion to Fourth Edition. What couldn't they release? Well, there's a few third-party monsters (those not derived from 1e and 2e ones), feats, and classes. In other words, while they'd lose access to some specific third edition stuff, very little of that matters. I do think it's highly likely you won't see the GSL allow the publication of character creation rules, so variant PHBs (like [i]Arcana Evolved[/i] or [i]Iron Heroes[/i]) and derivative systems that are complete games in and of themselves like [i]Castles & Crusades, Spycraft, Mutants & Masterminds, True 20, Game of Thrones[/i] and the [i]Pathfinder RPG[/i] probably can't be published under the terms of the GSL. Quite frankly, I'm amazed WotC ever allowed it. [/QUOTE]

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