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<blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 8921161" data-attributes="member: 47839"><p>[USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER],</p><p></p><p>Right now we are weathered the hurricane accessing the damage done. In this moment of relative calm we can breath a sigh of relief that the worst that could have happened, did not. The insurance we thought we had, the OGL 1.0a, is not a solid as we believed. So, now everyone is casting about trying to figure out how to best weather the next one... Unfortunately, it is too early to tell what it is we need to do to repair the damage and where the safest harbor is for 3PP publishers.</p><p></p><p>Slipping out of my hurricane disaster metaphor, it is just to early to tell what Paizo (ORC, PF SRD), Kobold Press (Black Flag SRD), and MCDM (unnamed project) are going to do and how successful they will be. ORC is an idea with some goals laid out, we don't have anything solid to make a prediction about what Paizo could or could not do in the future with it. If their word is to believed, they will not be able to break the ORC license once they set it in motion, but that is just words right now.</p><p></p><p>The creative commons of the SRD 5.1 has a solid and irrevocable license protecting it (no take-backsies). We are just working out the benefits and limitations of that license. Kobold Press has announced a project using this license. It will be interesting to see what they do.</p><p></p><p>OGL 1.0a, for now, is safe. The 3.0, 3.5, and 5.1 SRD can be used with it (as I understand it) but aside from WotC's word for the moment it still could be potentially "de-authorized." Again, we can speculate till the cows come home about the likelihood and the arguments for an against this position, but until it hits the courts and they makes a ruling, we will never be 100% certain.</p><p></p><p>Right now any 3PP of D&D compatible material should be talking to their lawyers (they should have been doing so when this disaster first hit) to assess their risk publishing right at this moment. If it were me (I am not a 3PP of D&D content), I would be cautious and let this develop until I had a clearer picture of where this is all going. But then again I don't have skin in the game and I don't have payroll to meet, printers to deal with, etc, etc...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Saracenus, post: 8921161, member: 47839"] [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER], Right now we are weathered the hurricane accessing the damage done. In this moment of relative calm we can breath a sigh of relief that the worst that could have happened, did not. The insurance we thought we had, the OGL 1.0a, is not a solid as we believed. So, now everyone is casting about trying to figure out how to best weather the next one... Unfortunately, it is too early to tell what it is we need to do to repair the damage and where the safest harbor is for 3PP publishers. Slipping out of my hurricane disaster metaphor, it is just to early to tell what Paizo (ORC, PF SRD), Kobold Press (Black Flag SRD), and MCDM (unnamed project) are going to do and how successful they will be. ORC is an idea with some goals laid out, we don't have anything solid to make a prediction about what Paizo could or could not do in the future with it. If their word is to believed, they will not be able to break the ORC license once they set it in motion, but that is just words right now. The creative commons of the SRD 5.1 has a solid and irrevocable license protecting it (no take-backsies). We are just working out the benefits and limitations of that license. Kobold Press has announced a project using this license. It will be interesting to see what they do. OGL 1.0a, for now, is safe. The 3.0, 3.5, and 5.1 SRD can be used with it (as I understand it) but aside from WotC's word for the moment it still could be potentially "de-authorized." Again, we can speculate till the cows come home about the likelihood and the arguments for an against this position, but until it hits the courts and they makes a ruling, we will never be 100% certain. Right now any 3PP of D&D compatible material should be talking to their lawyers (they should have been doing so when this disaster first hit) to assess their risk publishing right at this moment. If it were me (I am not a 3PP of D&D content), I would be cautious and let this develop until I had a clearer picture of where this is all going. But then again I don't have skin in the game and I don't have payroll to meet, printers to deal with, etc, etc... [/QUOTE]
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