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Any LA folks want to picket the premiere if Wizards don't blink on revoking the OGL? Signs that say "Corporate Bullies: Hasbro unfair business practices". "Red Wizards of Hasbro: Hands off D&D" "Heros wouldn't break their word" etc...

You mean works that received their OGL content license from a party other than Wizards, or works whose creator is defunct / unable / unwilling to release them under a new license of any kind? That is an interesting point.

After among the most bungled attacks on an Open Source community in history, clearly someone at Wizards has pulled themselves together this past week and changed tactics. It just remains to be see if a betrayal with good PR will survive where a betrayal with terrible PR failed. Make no mistake...

It may be boilerplate, but it doesn't belong in a license that shares a name with an actually open license (the OGL 1.0a).

Dude that is awesome and pretty sweet! Now they just have to stop attacking the OGL 1.0a community that they promised to forever protect, and everyone can go celebrate together!

Hey, I don't want racists using D&D either, but let me tell you a story about what accepting "openess" means really. There once was a software lisence called the "No Evil" lisence. All it said was that you couldn't use the software for Evil. No problem right? Who could argue with that? Well...

No, but "You can't revoke an open source license" is the hill I will die on. Sorry some of us have to be consistent in our lives.

I can attest to the general awesomeness of Beowulf's setting flavor. The mechanics are great too, with a neat system for handling "sidekicks" / other party members. I am excited to read the rest of the adventures, as I had only previously read through two of them.

Not one penny until the threat to the OGL 1.0a is acknowledged as irrevocable. Don't care about getting rid of "the suits", as it's an internal matter. I only care about external actions.

OK, folks, clearly we made an impact. Deep Breath. Since most of us like the D&D team, it's hard to stay furious at them when they say "mea culpa". But, we need to look at what is actually important and stay focused on securing it. They moved away from royalties (for now) trying to get the...

hmmmm.... still waiting for my confirmation email to make my name appear... is it coming? (edit: took over 20 mins, be patient!)

It can't be revoked for people who have published something under the OGL 1.0a is the EFF's new position.

I thought it was a decent article, she clearly knows both D&D and the law, and compares the pieces of a license to the invisibility spell. It's just an issue of different agendas. What I think her agenda is is to encourage folks to move en masse to a more bulletproof license. This would be a...

It's manual, and yes, I also have put in an account deletion request.

Bingo. Hope they enjoyed having their butts handed to them by the Open Source Software community because they are about to get the same pain, ignominy and scorn from the RPG ecosystem. Heck they may have actually left Microsoft BECAUSE it was learning it's lesson and opening up.

You have as a non lawyer hit the actual crux of the matter, and the reason why OGL 1.0a lisenced content like the old SRDs are safe. New content like a future OneDnD SRD, will not use an open license, so that is a completely separate issue how WoTC is killing golden goose there.

Boy, While I think that you are bringing interesting points to this discussion, this is IMHO an admission you are way out of your field. If you think Open source licenses are weird and unique...despite the fact that they run much of the world intellectual property economy, I don't know what to...

For the record, despite not being a lawyer, I disagree with Morrus about the whole Section 9 thing as you can read above. I.e. I think his summary at the top of the thread about being able to pick which version of the OGL applies to a work is only good for interchanging OGLs that have that...

I agree, I should have kept my mouth shut about CR, as they don't use the OGL in their show. Mea Culpa. I also apologize while we're apologizing about my inability to spell the word lisence, er... licensce, license consistently. Sorry people :D

No, you're right, CR probably didn't ask for permission at all, and used non-SRD proprietary player's handbook stuff on the air even, so the OGL changes wouldn't hurt or help them exactly, The other two examples stand. I think for streamers it's more that these changes are a signal that if...