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For 13A 2E it's only ("only") 32 products, assuming their copyright notices are complete, a lot of which are owned by Fire Opal Media or...
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This is exactly what I don't like about this response. It doesn't "turn out" anything, and there was nothing weak about the status quo...
Feb 16, 2026
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To describe my "off-ramp" idea a bit, since it's related to what you were and are saying: I think the most (universally) valuable...
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I can't speak for the publishers, and would be interested to hear specific perspectives, but as a general principle, yes it did threaten...
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For works that were benefiting from the OGL 1.0a, or were going to, the answer at the time was "nobody knows" and that was because of...
Feb 16, 2026
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This is the gist of my problem with the "everything's great!" reading of the OGL aftermath. To the degree to which one valued the...
Feb 16, 2026
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There's a lot of ways they could have done it. An address saying "we were wrong to pursue this, we acknowledge the value open gaming has...
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Other replies covered it, but basically, it's a term started in software licensing as spearheaded by the GNU GPL encapsulating that the...
Feb 16, 2026
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I agree, there's not a right answer in permissive vs. copyleft licensing, only a personal answer, but I think the distinction I would...
Feb 16, 2026
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From my perspective no one won, some just lost less then others. WotC stopped using the OGL, they now use CC and thsoe two are not...
Feb 16, 2026
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I deleted my previous reply, but I do owe this a proper response. My view is that everything good that has happened since (and there is...
Feb 16, 2026
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Additionally, by picking CC-BY rather than CC-BY-SA, Wizards has abandoned part of the principle of the commons, the "copyleft" nature...
Feb 16, 2026
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I am content that existing OGL 1.0a-licensed works and future derived works may continue. I believe they --- from third parties, anyway...
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