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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashtagon" data-source="post: 8919678" data-attributes="member: 72335">It totally can. In order to use CC material, you have to credit it as CC material by using that licence in your book. All the old books use OGL licencing. So all the old material will need to be re-written to be safe.There's a replacement for the OGL 1.0a foundation stone that everyone currently uses, but actually replacing that foundation stone in each and every product is a non-trivial task. In contrast, adding three words to the OGL 1.0a (to make an OGL 1.0b) would be a trivial task.The necessary OGL changes (I'm sure an actual lawyer can translate this to proper legalese) are:1 - change "any authorised version" to "any version ever authorised".2 - change "perpetual" to "perpetual and irrevocable".Making this 1.0b OGL would change the future-proofing task from one of reading through each book line by line to ensure it is valid under the CC and 5.1 SRD (remember, a lot of legacy content was based on the 3.0/3.5/d20m SRDs, which are similar but not fully overlapping), editing as needed, to swapping a single page (the one containing the OGL).As a trivial example, if you used the exact wording from the 3.5 SRD for something in your product, but the wording for the equivalent item in the 5.1 SRD is different (quite likely, its a different rules set after all), you'd be in breach of copyright if you then dropped the OGL in favour of CC without also rewording your body text. And you'd be vulnerable to a new legal challenge by WotC if you don't drop the OGL 1.0a while no OGL 1.0b is available.</blockquote>

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