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Hey! They changed 1.1 to 2.0! Fixed one of the things that was bugging the heck out of me. Thanks. Now they just need to remove "Open" from the name.

No guarantee the Twitch stream was the actual announcement video. It might have been part of their normal schedule that they cancelled because of the OGL video. Still don't know where the video is supposed to show up, though.

It would be one of the commercial licenses (which is the default). It's not clear if the OGL requires that any released content by the publisher also be released as OGL, and the manner in which it splits open content and product identity means that probably wouldn't work anyway. So most...

I really, really hate when people try to post serious commentary on Twitter. 53 tweets for this. It'll take a bit to work through.

Unfortunately, the public domain is fraught with uncertainty. There are legal arguments that you can't voluntarily put something into the public domain, if you hold the copyright for it. Part of the point of licenses like the GPL is to bypass that uncertainty by using the existing copyright...

Morality clauses should absolutely not be in any open license. An open license is usable by anyone for any content, and the point is to share that content with other people, for any purpose. This is both an onerous tax on the licensees, with the massive uncertainty about what some other person...

IANAL, but the EFF post earlier today suggests, "No." Not that there might not be issues, even given EFF's argument, but at the very least I wouldn't worry about it over-much. Morrus, of course, has to worry more about it, but it's not an issue that general users need to get hung up on.

The part I quoted in my post: Section IX (Warranties and Disclaimers), article J, on page 13. Now, what constitutes "separate entities", and what qualifies as employees deciding to create their own company, is probably up for some legal wrangling, but in general, what you're saying is exactly...

I didn't say otherwise. It's still probably most people who would do this for a living, rather than a side hobby. And $50k is total revenue, not net. Someone who sold $50k worth of material might be scraping by on $20k personal income, at best. From comments here and there, the profit margin...

The license explicitly says you can't do that. In addition, since they can terminate and update this license at any time, there's the very high possibility that they intend(ed) to reduce that $750k royalty limit. After all, they also demand everyone report all financials if they make over...

The first two pages are intro text. The header for the non-commercial portion of the license is the last line of the 2nd page. The start of the commercial portion of the license is in the middle of the 8th page.

So, there's an error in the termination clause: There are no sections VIII.G or VIII.H. Those are actually VII.G and VII.H (probably). I wonder if that would invalidate their ability to terminate licenses "at their sole discretion", which you cannot contest, and which they are under no...

The thing to keep in mind is that the GPL was designed explicitly with that purpose in mind, but that that isn't the case for most open source licenses (eg: Apache, MIT, BSD, etc), and doesn't seem to be the case in the design of the OGL. As for the OGL, a brief review doesn't seem to carry the...

This actually sounds like they are not only trying to effectively revoke 1.0a, but that they will likely withdraw it as an ongoing offer. Someone in another thread made the analogy of putting up a wanted poster for a lost dog. If you pull the poster down, you are no longer obligated to pay the...

Also, I must add another complaint: the new OGL should not be versioned 1.1. A minor version increase (1.0 to 1.1) indicates adding functionality that is backwards compatible with the previous version. WotC's 1.1 is clearly a breaking change, and thus should have been numbered as 2.0, a major...

Largely nothing for the purposes of our discussion. The GPL, for example, is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the FSF has no connection to any software that uses the GPL. Most likely the only relevance is that only WotC has the right to edit the content of the document, so...

WotC would have had no incentive to update it based on the changes in 2007, because 2007 was the release of GPL 3. There was a lot of controversy over GPL 3, but its main purpose was in closing loopholes regarding implementing code in hardware (such as router firmware), and patent rights (this...

The global market value of the movies and entertainment market (which includes music and videos) in 2022 is estimated at $95 billion. The global market value of video games in 2022 is estimated at $220 billion. The market value of the global mobile application market in 2022 is estimated at $206...

Ah, go look up the Oracle vs Google lawsuit over Java APIs. It was a headache and a half, because if Oracle won it would have destroyed most software interoperability as we know it. If Google thought Hasbro's actions threatened to create another such situation (suit filed for $8.8 billion...

Pretty much, yep. Kendra tried to present a credible threat, and that threat failed because it wasn't as credible as she thought it would be. In the same vein, if she'd tried to bend the poker but failed, it would also not be intimidating. Neither case relies on Charisma. As for stat...