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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9320736" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>Going "above and beyond" is <em>part</em> of repairing the harm. I think that the posts made by [USER=6915329]@Faolyn[/USER] and [USER=6690965]@Pedantic[/USER], above, really capture the essence of that. Loss of trust (which is a form of harm) requires that measures be taken (i.e. making amends) in order to regain said trust.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, the community would be better served by the type of OGL v1.0b that I laid out above, even if the older SRDs are put under the Creative Commons. That's because not only is the OGL's usage much more familiar to the people and companies who make use of open gaming, but the fact that you can't utilize existing Open Game Content under the CC license (even if the relevant SRDs are posted under it) cripples a great deal of how the open gaming community operated.</p><p></p><p>Even if you put the 3.5 SRD under the Creative Commons, you aren't going to be able to release PF1 supplements, or Mutants & Masterminds supplements, or FantasyCraft supplements, etc. unless literally <em>all</em> of the books that you'd be utilizing content from (and all of the books <em>they</em> utilized content from, in a recursive manner back to the SRDs) were re-released under the CC. Since that's almost certainly never going to happen, the CC will <em>never</em> be as good as the OGL still is.</p><p></p><p>Or, to put it another way, the rumors of the OGL's death are greatly exaggerated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9320736, member: 8461"] Going "above and beyond" is [I]part[/I] of repairing the harm. I think that the posts made by [USER=6915329]@Faolyn[/USER] and [USER=6690965]@Pedantic[/USER], above, really capture the essence of that. Loss of trust (which is a form of harm) requires that measures be taken (i.e. making amends) in order to regain said trust. Honestly, the community would be better served by the type of OGL v1.0b that I laid out above, even if the older SRDs are put under the Creative Commons. That's because not only is the OGL's usage much more familiar to the people and companies who make use of open gaming, but the fact that you can't utilize existing Open Game Content under the CC license (even if the relevant SRDs are posted under it) cripples a great deal of how the open gaming community operated. Even if you put the 3.5 SRD under the Creative Commons, you aren't going to be able to release PF1 supplements, or Mutants & Masterminds supplements, or FantasyCraft supplements, etc. unless literally [I]all[/I] of the books that you'd be utilizing content from (and all of the books [I]they[/I] utilized content from, in a recursive manner back to the SRDs) were re-released under the CC. Since that's almost certainly never going to happen, the CC will [I]never[/I] be as good as the OGL still is. Or, to put it another way, the rumors of the OGL's death are greatly exaggerated. [/QUOTE]
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