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No it doesn't. It was a comparison between specific licenses; you can't just say "well one of those is kind of like the OGL, so it counts." More open = makes more open content. Given that, is the CC-BY more or less open than the OGL? There's only one correct answer given the metric. I find it...

You cited two articles that compared the CC-BY to licenses that weren't the OGL, and then tried to hold them up as proof that the CC-BY was more open than the OGL, which isn't how supporting evidence works. You have cited zero reports that the CC-BY is more open than the OGL also. The...

You're citing an article that uses its own metric, and then saying it's a completely different metric. Okay, in the meantime I'll continue using it like the TTRPG community has done for the last twenty-five years, but you do you. :rolleyes:

I just finished another classic bit of fantasy that I picked up years ago but only recently made time for, that being Lest Darkness Fall [and] To Bring the Light. Some quick explanation is in order for those who (correctly) recognize that as two different titles. When I was looking to purchase...

No, that is not all he's been saying. As @Faolyn has already pointed out, Hussar has made several comments that were much more judgmental than that:

You're the one using it differently, causing confusion when you're called out on your mistake. No, the "principle" is not valid. A more apt example would be that you're saying you can compare an apple to an orange because they're both round, ignoring that they're not the same. And you have...

It's paraphrasing, and it accurately summarizes the inherent contradiction in calling the CC-BY a "more open" license than the OGL, despite the practical impact of its so-called "more open" nature being that it creates less open content.

Which certainly puts them out of step with how the community, here on EN World (and elsewhere), has been using it. Again, maybe that's how they use the term elsewhere (i.e. outside of the TTRPG space), but not here. That's not really a differentiating factor with regard to the OGL, which also...

Yes, you are wrong. That's not how it's generally used when comparing the openness of licenses; at least, not in this community. That you say it's used differently elsewhere doesn't make you right. No, the license is less open; the publisher and what they release under it is fundamental to...

Regarding the issue of semantics, I'll say that this does not match the experience of myself or numerous other people I've spoken to, both casually and professionally, in the TTRPG community. I don't know how things are talked about in other communities that use other licenses, but everyone in...

You're wrong. The CC-BY is less open because it gives publishers the option of adding more restrictions, i.e. they can restrict what would otherwise necessarily be open content under the OGL. If you create less open content, then that content is restricted; hence the license is less open...

So it's your position that no publisher has done this? (Also, it's not a question of releasing crippled content under the CC-BY; it's that they don't need to release anything at all.) If your stance is that every single publisher that has put out material under the CC-BY has done so with...

It's a shame they only used that awesome "Warrior's Song" for the trailer and not in the show itself.

Yes, you can claim the CC-BY is less open than the OGL (mostly because, you know, it is). Even "crippled" Open Game Content still released the mechanics as OGC, and while having to create new names and write new flavor text was burdensome it was still better than having to create everything from...

It's not disingenuous; I literally didn't know what you meant. I've heard plenty of people use "broken" for "unbalanced," for instance, which makes your use of that term to mean something completely different confusing. There certainly were some publishers who did that, but in my experience...

Can you expound on that? What did they do wrong? (Likewise, I'm mostly sure I provided all of the salient information, but I'm not absolutely certain I didn't leave some crucial bit out.)

I had some similar questions about a product I recently purchased that turned out to use the OGL and ORC licenses, specifically to take PF2 Remastered material (released under ORC) and translate it to PF1 game mechanics (released under the OGL).

I swear, I knew what it really was, but for some reason my brain spent a half-second trying to convince me that the thread title was actually "The Good Sandwich Thread [+]"

I have to disagree with you here. In his interview in Dragon Annual #6 (December, 2001), Dancey openly says: "You could even use the System Reference Document to publish an entirely new roleplaying game!" I think you're referring to Paizo creating Pathfinder here, in which case the emergency...