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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8902176" data-attributes="member: 14159"><p>Indeed, D&D was out in the open via the OGL before Hasbro ever bought WotC.</p><p></p><p>Their due diligence before the buyout should have made it clear that one of WotC's two major properties, D&D (the other being M:TG of course) had much of its content out there under a copyleft license.</p><p></p><p>They bought WotC knowing that D&D was under an open-source license. . .that they are buying the D&D trademarks and setting-specific IP, but the game mechanics itself of D&D were never something WotC had exclusive legal control over from the moment they bought WotC.</p><p></p><p>. . .now, literally decades later, they're trying to gaslight the gaming world into acting like they always could have just "de authorized" the OGL one day and this whole time we've been using the OGL under the ongoing generosity of WotC, which they've decided to stop just so they can stop all these pesky bigots from making bigoted D&D-compatible materials (never mind this isn't an actual problem), and so they can stop people from making D&D NFT's (again, not a real issue, especially since the OGL doesn't allow use of the D&D trademarks).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 8902176, member: 14159"] Indeed, D&D was out in the open via the OGL before Hasbro ever bought WotC. Their due diligence before the buyout should have made it clear that one of WotC's two major properties, D&D (the other being M:TG of course) had much of its content out there under a copyleft license. They bought WotC knowing that D&D was under an open-source license. . .that they are buying the D&D trademarks and setting-specific IP, but the game mechanics itself of D&D were never something WotC had exclusive legal control over from the moment they bought WotC. . . .now, literally decades later, they're trying to gaslight the gaming world into acting like they always could have just "de authorized" the OGL one day and this whole time we've been using the OGL under the ongoing generosity of WotC, which they've decided to stop just so they can stop all these pesky bigots from making bigoted D&D-compatible materials (never mind this isn't an actual problem), and so they can stop people from making D&D NFT's (again, not a real issue, especially since the OGL doesn't allow use of the D&D trademarks). [/QUOTE]
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