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Do you have a link to the original (as opposed to a screencapture)?

One thing to remember with this whole de-authorization of the OGL 1.0a business-- The original leak and FAQ around it suggested that the Wizards leadership of today doesn't understand the OGL. They seem to see it as a license that lets other people use their content, with no implications...

Open gaming may be unusual, but it does not exist in a vacuum. It was explicitly inspired by the whole open source / free software movement. Most web servers and high performance computers in the world use Linux or something derived from it now-- something that was released under an open...

No. Content restrictions (like "no offensive stuff") absolutely do not belong in an open license. You don't see anything like that in Creative Commons. The open license needs to be just about the legal terms for what can be reused. Trying to police tone and offensiveness will undermine it...

I am still traumatized from a game of Diplomacy that I played in 1983.

Assuming the timing works, will this use the ORC? Or a custom open license? Will the older WOIN books be re-released to use the ORC?

They get an F because they didn't walk back trying to de-authorize the OGL 1.0a.

That image on the back does NOT make me think it would be a good idea to try to get into that van....

If I cut and paste that link, it goes to the right place, but when I click on it it goes to Facebook.

Well, to be fair, it was extremely pedantic....

Quibble -- there will be no SRD's in ORC. ORC will be a license, totally detached from any given rules set. People who release rules sets or SRD can choose to release them under the ORC if they wish. I suspect that Paizo will announce that Pathfinder 2e (and also Starfinder?) SRDs are...

...I have to admit it's very difficult to get over my cynicism about the utter irrelevance of change.org to, well, anything.

Of course, a 21-year work-for-hire copyright term would put D&D 3e in the public domain now. We can dream. Given the current world, copyright is more likely to go to indefinite perpetual than back to anything like that.

It's not the same. Your heirs don't get to keep selling the furniture you've already sold, without limit.

I keep seeing the conflation of license and system that happened with the OGOGL. Too often people used "OGL" to mean compatible with the open parts of D&D. They're not the same thing, just as GPL doesn't imply (say) Linux. Going forward, it would be nice to have one standard open gaming...

Of course, that was the d20 system license, not the OGL.

... can't we get back to something less contentious like, I don't know, edition wars?

To be fair, often it's just hyper.

Gygax deserves a lot of credit for his foundational role in our hobby, but he was also wrong about lots of things. We shouldn't put anybody on a pedestal (not even Ryan Dancy!) and expect that we'll agree with their take on everything.

.... if you agree to this license, you have defrauded yourself.