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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sigfried" data-source="post: 8881610" data-attributes="member: 1798">That is partly the case.  The OGL addresses two kinds of content.1. PI (Product Identity) is copyrighted material you reserve only for yourself2. OGC (Open Gaming Content) consists of two types, but both treated equally under the license  a. Content that you wrote and want to share with all license users  b. Content others wrote and decided to share with all license usersThe license is an agreement between all users of the license; if you publish with it, you can use OGC from other publishers, but you agree to share the OGC you publish under the license.  The prescription against copyrighted material is to say that you don't have permission to add anyone else's work, that is not already covered by the license into the license.  AKA I can't take some other companies' stuff and declare it is OGC.  But if they already published it as OGC, it's fair game to use.WOTC published the SRD document as OGC, so everything in there becomes available to everyone under the license, but each company using the license is also adding material for everyone to use.</blockquote>