Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
It's not Open Gaming in terms of the OGL, but neither is it fully closed gaming either. Ajar Gaming?
(. . .)
Or, indeed, a d20 License alongside the OGL.
And during the rollout of 4e we saw WotC ending (or simply not renewing) a number of licenses: d20 was cancelled, the Dragon/Dungeon license ended, Dragonlance was brought back in-house, and so forth. I strongly suspect that they would have pulled the OGL too, if they could have done so.
Naturally, the same could happen again.
I hear ya but these, as far as game licenses go, are mostly apples and oranges. The d20 STL was for a single trademark meant to layer on top of some OGL works. The various private property licenses like for Dragon Magazine, etc, have nothing to do with anything I am discussing. The GSL and the DMs Guild, however, are both meant as direct OGL alternatives.
I wasn't aware the GSL had been cancelled? In fact, I was of the impression that [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] was still using it for his 4e products. But I might be wrong about that, of course.
I am probably the one that is wrong. We'll see what they do about it, since they do have the option. I wonder if enough people are using the GSL for 4E material and not switching such that WotC would consider it advantageous to exercise that option?