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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 4409419" data-attributes="member: 23935">I'm not sure where you got the idea WotC will review your product for acceptability.  Although the GSL has the requirement to provide copies of product to WotC on demand, there is no indication such a request and review will be commonplace.  Certainly, I expect WotC will have no wish to hire staff to review all product.  Additionally, your product may still meet acceptability from WotC's perspective, but the GSL may no longer be acceptable to the publisher.The dealbreaker is the combination not the individual items.If you sell a copy of a GSL product after a change to GSL, you are deemed to have accepted the new terms.  But you don't necessarily know at the time you fulfil an order that the license has changed.  It is your responsibility to keep tabs of the status of the license and to vet any changes for acceptability.  WotC refuses responsibility of informing you of the change.Let's look at a not-horrible hypothetical example:A brand-new publisher of pdfs fills in the GSL license card and mails it in.  The company waits the appropriate time to be told 'no' and hears nothing.  The company is good to go.It starts selling pdfs off of its web site.  Those pdfs are formatted to meet the current GSL requirements and don't break any rules.A few months later, one of the contributors notices the GSL terms were changed a week earlier and they don't like the new version.  They would prefer to stop selling entirely rather than be bound by the terms (say the perpetual OGL prohibition was extended to include Creative Common licenses, for example).  They stop selling immediately, but because they sold a copy between the time the GSL was changed and the time they noticed, they are in fact bound by the new rules.  They are beholden to the new terms.One way around that would be to check to see if the GSL has changed at the time of every sale.  The only sensible method of accomplishing that is through the use of an application/script to verify the GSL file is the same as a reference copy.  Put all sales on hold if a difference is detected until a human can determine if the change is acceptable.Unfortunately, the Term of Use of Wizard's web site prohibit script access so implementing such a defensive measure isn't appropriate.  (At least it was last time I checked.  The site is down and has been down a lot.)The next most reasonable solution is to buld in a 'hold' time between the order and delivery, but that goes against the basic expectation for online orders.</blockquote>

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