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Lawyerly question: If WotC is effectively trying to put an expiration date on the OGL 1.0a license (ie everything published before X date will continue to be publishable under that license but anything after X date cannot use the terms of that license to reuse, republish, or redistribute new...

Yep. All of the 1.0a license is in effect or none of it is. There is no middle ground. joe b.

For there to be no impact on currently published 1.0a products, there can be no reduction in the rights to use and republish the material released as OGC in those products. WotC is either lying about no impact occurring, or they mean what they are saying and that 1.0a materials will continue as...

As with the prior statement, this statement by WotC can only be true if the right to use and republish currently-published 1.0a material remains as it has been for 23 years. Any thing other than that definitely impacts the content "you" have published. For instance, one of the 3PP's digital...

New information from WotC: A Working Conversation About the Open Game License (OGL) "Your OGL 1.0a content. Nothing will impact any content you have published under OGL 1.0a. That will always be licensed under OGL 1.0a." Again, this statement can only be true if the right to use and republish...

It is far from an appeal to authority or "pulling something" to say that I have some knowledge about what I've been doing for 20 years and the people that I've been working and associating with over that period. It's similar to when one of the lawyers here says something regarding the law: one...

You have a very fixed opinion that trust and harmony is required for profitable business relationships that is absolutely counter to empiric reality. That fixedness is matched by your utter assurance that everyone is behaving as you believe you think they are, coupled with the belief that a...

Because the OGC of the 1.0a license has proven monetary value: past, present, and (more than likely) future. No, its true in the truest sense in that nothing has changed with it. Things have changed around it. Important things, of course. But it is exactly what it has always been and it will...

What they're doing now: wait until a final word from WotC is stated and then judge from there. Everything right now is very much far from decided and, regardless what WotC is claiming, the OGL 1.0a is functioning exactly has it has for the prior 23 years and it shall continue doing that until...

And to quote myself to be scary, the fact that the impact to their bottom line is greater than even what they estimated more than likely means that it will harden their resolve to kill the OGL. The more damage they realize from their actions, the more likely they are to interpret their actions...

I think we have to look at it this way: the impact to the bottom line is considered important enough by WotC to do what they're doing regarding trying to kill the OGL. It may not be only impact right now, it could be about impact in the future (which I suspect), but regardless they consider it...

It makes me wonder, "Is it unusual though?" or is it a lack of listener knowledge over covered subjects that makes it seem unusual? ie. If a person were a well-informed listener on all the other subjects covered, would this seem unusual, or would it be a pattern? joe b.

Yeah, the impact on WotC's bottom line is much harder to estimate. joe b.

I'd tend to think the reverse. I don't think most people understand that so many products out there exist only because of the safe harbor that the OGL was providing, and this is not only for WotC OGC (which is the obvious one) but for many other open systems that use the OGL as well. More...

There is no need to use analogies when we can talk about the thing at hand. People will still be willing to use WotC's Open Gaming Content after this. There are no other open licenses applied to that content, and "relying upon copyright law" to try and mimic that content results not only in a...

I disagree. The legal status of the Open Game Content put into all the various SRDs by WotC is far from a footnote in anything right now. (How do I know? Because it is that content that WotC is trying so desperately to prevent others from accessing freely. It is literally the reason for...

I'll go ahead and say, "I disagree again." The issue is the legality and safe harbor quality of using WotC Open Game Content. Any court will (most likely) resolve both issues, and when that happens, there's no need of "trust" in its use as that would qualify as "verified." joe b.

A little off topic, but folks, I saw this non-ogl compatible meme and couldn't resist sharing.... joe b.

One of the big problems with that is that 6e is really 5.5e and just about all you'll need to create new content would already out there in SRD land. (Edit: the other big one is that's what they did with 4e and the GSL, and they believe that environment is what created their largest competitor...

Those aren't even parsnips and shouldn't have fooled any but the foolish. joe b.