HalWhitewyrm
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Forked from: Doing the GSL. Who?
I applaud and support their decision. I thought Chris' post was extremely good in outlining their reasons for the decision, echoing the sentiment of a large part of the 3rd party community:BryonD said:Green Ronin has announced that they will not be going GSL.
http://greenronin.com/2008/07/green_ronin_and_4e.php
Do read the entire post.Green Ronin will not be signing the Game System License (GSL) at this time. [...] we'll be giving our full attention to our own game lines: Mutants & Masterminds, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, True20 Adventure Roleplaying, and Freeport: The City of Adventure.
We had hoped to include 4E support in our plans, but the terms of the GSL are too one-sided as they stand. [...] We do not [...] feel that this license treats third party publishers as valued partners.
Let me be clear in stating that I don't think that the people in charge of WotC currently are just waiting to attack companies with frivolous lawsuits. Once you sign the GSL though, you open yourself up to that at any point in the future. Who knows when new people will take over the D&D brand and who can say what their vision will be? Who knows when the political winds at WotC will change again and things will get even more restrictive? We do not want to operate under such a cloud moving ahead so that's why we won't be signing the GSL.
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