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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8867135" data-attributes="member: 8461">I'm not sure that would hold water, personally.I mean, they could insert language like that, but if there's any &quot;One Game Content&quot; (i.e. 1D&amp;D Open Game Content) that in any way overlaps with Open Game Content currently in use from a different SRD, e.g. content such as a race called &quot;dwarves,&quot; or a class called &quot;cleric,&quot; etc., then almost anything could be put forward as being &quot;One Game Content&quot; even if it's not.Now, the obvious counter to that would be that you have to look at the Section 15 to see if the 1D&amp;D SRD is being cited, which would ideally clear things up. Even then, though, I'm not sure you'd be able to make a &quot;if you use this, you're subject to the OGL v1.1&quot; clause fly, simply because that language would be part of the OGL v1.1 itself (not the 1D&amp;D SRD), and so in order to be bound by that clause you have to actually use the OGL v1.1. You can't be held subject to the terms of a license you aren't a party to. Hence, if someone uses Open Game Content originally released under the OGL v1.1 in an OGL v1.0a product via the latter's Section 9, they haven't actually used the OGL v1.1 to begin with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8867135, member: 8461"] I'm not sure that would hold water, personally. I mean, they [I]could[/I] insert language like that, but if there's any "One Game Content" (i.e. 1D&D Open Game Content) that in any way overlaps with Open Game Content currently in use from a different SRD, e.g. content such as a race called "dwarves," or a class called "cleric," etc., then almost anything could be put forward as being "One Game Content" even if it's not. Now, the obvious counter to that would be that you have to look at the Section 15 to see if the 1D&D SRD is being cited, which would ideally clear things up. Even then, though, I'm not sure you'd be able to make a "if you use this, you're subject to the OGL v1.1" clause fly, simply because that language would be part of the OGL v1.1 itself (not the 1D&D SRD), and so in order to be bound by that clause you have to actually [I]use[/I] the OGL v1.1. You can't be held subject to the terms of a license you aren't a party to. Hence, if someone uses Open Game Content originally released under the OGL v1.1 in an OGL v1.0a product via the latter's Section 9, they haven't actually used the OGL v1.1 to begin with. [/QUOTE]

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