Search results

It doesn't have to me mine - in fact it can't, because I don't actually own the copyright to any published content I've written, it's the property of whichever publisher paid me. If you can dig up a copy of The Athena Strain for the B5 RPG, that's by me but owned by Mongoose Publishing. Ditto...

Please quote which part of the license allows you to use my work I released under under OGL 1.0a under CC (or any other license that I have not agreed to)

SRD 5.1 being in CC does not put derivative material in CC or make it available in any other way than expressly permitted by the creator of that derivative material.

That's not in the OGL 1.0(a) license, that looks like it's from the Open Content declaration which publishers write themselves. If someone put that text in a book, that looks like they've legally granted you a single-line license outside of OGL 1.0(a). Hopefully, they have not included OGC they...

Ooo, interesting, I'll edit that post!

A work that wants to use anything from the vast library of third party OGC from over the past 23 years. The 99% of OGC that isn't in a WotC SRD.

So, it's important to bear in mind there are two parts to a license. It's also important to bear in mind that I am not a legal expert, just someone thats worked with licensing for 23+ years and picked up stuff along the way. Oh, and I'll also point out that once ORC material becomes available...

This is assuming you can find out who those heirs are in the first place.

I would argue that the licensor/publisher already has those rights, so it only makes sense in a licensee perspective - that I, as licensee, can take your 1.0a Open Game Content (and again, it specifically mentions OGC - the existing publisher has rights to the full text, this license is...

Agreed totally - right now even without the OGL, we can create something that pulls the 5.1 SRD in via CC, and then license that creation under anything we feel like, and that's a nice thing we did not have before all of this. I'd actually suggest anyone using the OGL or ORC license also add...

1) Hope many people have been persuaded to try other RPGs. The more we diversify, the stronger the hobby is for not having anyone that can try to control it. 2) Work on producing some material under ORC 3) Still buy any RPG product that looks interesting (WotC ones too) 4) No real move on what...

Safer, perhaps. Actually useable by 3PPs? A big nope, the work involved in splitting out the bit of your book you want sharable into a seperate document under CC so you're not also giving away your reserved Product Identity just isn't worth it. This was discussed on the ORC Discord, whether...

Your recollection is correct ;) For my "day job" PF1/2 is reponsible for most of our traffic, 5e adds some but isn't as big as either of those. Huge parts of all that is 3PP material (assuming you don't treat Paizo as a 3PP for forking D&D 3.5). There's still that dependency up to WotC at the...

My view right now is that having my income dependent on one single keystone holding is not a good thing. If I start putting some of the weight onto a 2nd keystone, I'm at least insulated against one crumbling away. The specifics of my own position mean I've got a fairly static-ish income from...

Yup. The thing that people aren't understanding is that we do not all want the same thing here. The train is not going to the destination all of us wish to reach. Those who wish to reach that destination are best served getting back onboard the train. Those who want a destination in another...

Understood - and that's a big part of my thinking re: ORC. Sure, WotC may still come after me for a copyright violation, but at least they can't come after me for some made-up license violation if I don't actually have a license with them. At least copyright violations I have some idea of how...

Question - what if 1.0b replaces the "any authorized version" text with "any version that has ever been authorized" - that at least would prevent the vague "deauthorize" threat, yes? It's not perfect, but it seems that would close that particular loophole (while still potentially leaving one of...

Exactly this. This is why CC is not a huge thing, its just the SRD to some game written by WotC, not the far, far greater body of work produced under the OGL by other parties ;)

If I use 1.0b on your 1.0a content, it could give you additional protections from me. It believe it could also give me additional protections from any upstream licensor trying to invoke license processes upon me (such as "deauthorize", by specifying that my 1.0b license cannot be deauthorized)...

I can't change your license to 1.0(b), but I can, under the terms written in1.0(a), distribute content you licensed out under 1.0a under the terms of 1.0(b). What I don't know is if those terms are legally enforcable (thats where the legal people need to chime in), but the actual text of 1.0(a)...