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There's a group I haven't heard of in a LONG time. :)

I haven't paid that close attention to the Hypertext SRD, but aren't they using the Unearthed Arcana that is strictly released as OGC?

They are attempting to retcon what the OGL was "intended" for, and attempting to create confusion between what the OGL is, and what the d20 STL was. With software it's kinda dicey because you have to know what license all of the libraries you are using is under (several are incompatible with the...

That logic made me do a Sanity check.

Have you met the Internet, rampant unfounded speculation is what we do, lol. :D

Yes, I don't want ANYONE to get the confused as to what the original license said, or has been used as. It's the whole "accept their arguement premise and it becomes fact" issue. :)

That was the STL, the OGL doesn't get into any type of processing.

OpenRPG was in beta in 2000's, & Fantasy Grounds was launched in 2004. So it WAS coming. And it was kinda baffling that Hasbro didn't see it coming and want to capitalize on it. Of course there is also their track record (or lack there of) with any type of inhouse controlled software attempt.

I'll also note that they are wildly misstating, and in my opinion attempting to retcon, the OGL. NOTHING in the OGL v1.0 or v1.0a attempted to exclude the items they are saying it didn't cover. The d20 STL did, and this needs to be made clear every time this is brought up so it doesn't fall by...

The same as placing a barrier to do something that was previously unimpeded, or even placing a "perceived" barrier. Yes, the vast majority of publishers won't have issues with the possibility of paying royalties, because they will never come close. But it is still a "theoretical" barrier and a...

The d20 STL restriction on randomly generated results that could be used to determine a positive or negative result absolutely excluded quite a lot of software. PCGen stripped out the files that allowed using rolling dice to generate ability scores for a couple of versions to attempt to stay...

In case people weren't aware Soap was a satire comedy series of the entire Soap Opera genre. And it was truly excellent.

I miss Soap.

You can also do a combined method like PCGen does where the engine has a license (LGPL, Apache, etc), and the data that drives it is released as OGC under the OGL (which PCGen's lst files are).

Those things WERE allowed under the OGL, they couldn't be made using the d20 STL though because of the wording around the dice mechanics and generating results. And PCGen has a 20+ year history of showing that. :)

On 2, because it ensured that D&D could never die. People REALLY keep forgetting how close we were to completely losing D&D at the time.

I and @Mike Myler have pointed this out multiple times since DMsG launched.

The original Gentleman's Agreement that was used before the OGL was finalized and published and the earliest FAQ's stated that the OGC data HAD to be human readable so that it could be used by another publisher. This is the exact reason why PCGen's engine is licensed under the LGPL, and the data...

Had a thought, what if they ARE helping with him, and it could be much worse than it currently is..

Maybe NuTSR is a Nemesis Plot?