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<blockquote data-quote="enrious" data-source="post: 5774858" data-attributes="member: 2126">People (like Kenzer) can publish 4e stuff under Fair Use copyright laws and bet that they have top-notch lawyers (I believe David Kenzer is a lawyer) and reasonably believe they can publish compatible material without violating those laws and thus subjecting themselves to costly and lengthy litigation.Or people could publish under the OGL/GSL and if they stayed within the provisions of the respective licenses, find themselves in a safe-harbor, where WotC agreed not to sue them.So yes and no - companies could publish 4e under Fair Use and thus not need the GSL - but if they deemed the effort and possible risk to not be worth it, they wouldn't.And with the GSL being so horrible when it came out (and still not very good after the revision), it makes sense that companies elected not to.It's an odd situation - the OGL isn't theoretically required to publish and yet for a most companies, it is required.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="enrious, post: 5774858, member: 2126"] People (like Kenzer) can publish 4e stuff under Fair Use copyright laws and bet that they have top-notch lawyers (I believe David Kenzer is a lawyer) and reasonably believe they can publish compatible material without violating those laws and thus subjecting themselves to costly and lengthy litigation. Or people could publish under the OGL/GSL and if they stayed within the provisions of the respective licenses, find themselves in a safe-harbor, where WotC agreed not to sue them. So yes and no - companies could publish 4e under Fair Use and thus not need the GSL - but if they deemed the effort and possible risk to not be worth it, they wouldn't. And with the GSL being so horrible when it came out (and still not very good after the revision), it makes sense that companies elected not to. It's an odd situation - the OGL isn't theoretically required to publish and yet for a most companies, it is required. [/QUOTE]

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