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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8913415" data-attributes="member: 10531"><p>Look at the Section 15 on <a href="https://sanglorian.github.io/orcus/Orcus%20-%20Open%20Game%20License.html" target="_blank">Orcus</a>. Hundreds of sources from dozens of publishers.</p><p></p><p>There's a <em>huge</em> commons out there, and as long as the holder of the copyrights on the SRDs is not <em>bindingly</em> prohibited from killing the use of that material, Wizbro's talk of "de-authorization" has created a standing threat to burn it all down. </p><p></p><p>The acceptable terms from Wizbro, given the creation of that threat by Wizbro, are <em>nothing</em> less than an OGL 1.0b, otherwise identical to 1.0a, that explicitly 1) makes the offer in the OGL irrevocable, 2) makes the license granted by the OGL irrevocable, 3) makes any authorization of an OGL by Wizbro irrevocable, and 4) excludes any grounds for termination other than breach. And then under which OGL 1.0b Wizbro explicitly re-releases the SRD (3rd), MSRD (d20 Modern), RSRD (3.5), <em>Unearthed Arcana</em>, and SRD5 (5th). Along with a formal statement from Wizbro declaring that the OGL 1.0, 1.0a, and 1.0b are authorized versions of the OGL.</p><p></p><p>Then Wizbro can consider whatever terms they like for future content releases (GSL 2.0 or whatnot). </p><p></p><p>But anything less than that -- even if they release those four SRDs and <em>Unearthed Arcana</em> under CC BY -- is aggression by Wizbro against the commons built up by other parties over the last two decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="see, post: 8913415, member: 10531"] Look at the Section 15 on [URL='https://sanglorian.github.io/orcus/Orcus%20-%20Open%20Game%20License.html']Orcus[/URL]. Hundreds of sources from dozens of publishers. There's a [I]huge[/I] commons out there, and as long as the holder of the copyrights on the SRDs is not [I]bindingly[/I] prohibited from killing the use of that material, Wizbro's talk of "de-authorization" has created a standing threat to burn it all down. The acceptable terms from Wizbro, given the creation of that threat by Wizbro, are [I]nothing[/I] less than an OGL 1.0b, otherwise identical to 1.0a, that explicitly 1) makes the offer in the OGL irrevocable, 2) makes the license granted by the OGL irrevocable, 3) makes any authorization of an OGL by Wizbro irrevocable, and 4) excludes any grounds for termination other than breach. And then under which OGL 1.0b Wizbro explicitly re-releases the SRD (3rd), MSRD (d20 Modern), RSRD (3.5), [I]Unearthed Arcana[/I], and SRD5 (5th). Along with a formal statement from Wizbro declaring that the OGL 1.0, 1.0a, and 1.0b are authorized versions of the OGL. Then Wizbro can consider whatever terms they like for future content releases (GSL 2.0 or whatnot). But anything less than that -- even if they release those four SRDs and [I]Unearthed Arcana[/I] under CC BY -- is aggression by Wizbro against the commons built up by other parties over the last two decades. [/QUOTE]
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