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From my understanding they have demonstrated that they can. The DMGuild license is as far as I understand open for all, with some pretty heavy controls. Also computer games enabling user generated content tend to have quite heavy control clauses. So I wonder why you seem to give this general...

Not quite. The traditional point of an open highly post controlled licence like this is that it allow for content created by hobbyist, and a small commercial and blooming undergrowth. The thing ut do not support is the trees. For the real commercial actors closed license is generally accepted to...

Well, this is easy, once SRD is CC and ORC is operational. Just have people publish spells, classes etc compatible with that ruleset. Then have other people curate what they think give a good balanced selection of "all the stuff you need" and then have a third group of people vote with their...

If we are looking at time-lines, it was also mentioned in a "rumor" that wizards already had some investments into a D&D beyond competitor before the seemingly somewhat uncoordinated DDB acquisition. And that other rumors indicate that the entire point of announcing a new edition was to be able...

They don't need to be big to be relevant. What make D&D a hobby, rather than "just a game" is due to the different levels you can engage with it. I for instance like reading and running adventures, and find wizards offering to be much less to my tastes than even certain very low production value...

There was multiple factors i play. While magic might have gotten a lot of the competative fantasy audience, White Wolf very agressively targeted the role players. And AD&D1 was still in use by their loyal fan base. It is likely hard to measure these factors agai st each other.

(Back to the article) I find it quite nice! Didn't see anything obviously wrong the way I am used to experiencing with mainstream media coverage of issues I am deeply familiar with. I might have liked to see some mention about how what wizards is doing might be illegitimate, or the links between...

Well, strictly speaking isn't that exactly what it is saying: "Permision to (...) is granted solely trough the use of (OGL1.0a)"?

I can answer as a software engineer. "Paraphrasing" the free source code of an open source project into your closed source project is something we know to not be OK. Looking at open source for educational purposes to get ideas for how elements can be used are commonly accepted though. The...

That copyright notice - did you shout out to all third party content creators you could find, or is it indeed using material from all those sources? In the later case I consider this impressive almost beyond belief!

A GSL identical to 1.1 allowing use of the badge, and as the only license for the planed 5.2 would likely have given them absolutely everything they wanted, including VTT dominance. The badge would have been worth gold as a guarantee that the suplement indeed was supposed to be used with and...

One issue I haven't seen touched upon is the issue of contractual misrepresentation? I just stumbled upon the concept online, and it might seem relevant? The contract I believe have been demonsratably been presented as a safe fundation for open source style investments. If this is found to be...

Assuming well established open source schemes do not have this withdrawal of offer issue - what mechanism do they have to prevent that? Is it reliance on this assumption, or might there be something else, like formulation in a way that do not place it into the domain of contract law? If it...

To make an anology: You cannot target the paper maker, the pencil maker or your licensed publisher for contrabutory infringement if someone writes an unauthoriszed copy of your work by hand while reading the authorized book.

My post explicitely has as a premise that a srd based package with any existing well accepted VTT would be allowed. The point of the premise was that this would close the door to claim that either the vtt owner, or the srd pack creator could be targeted by contravutory infrignment. Accusing a...

The big problem with trying to separate between a VTT and a videogame is that at least 2 of the biggest VTTs are arguably generic programming frameworks. Both Foundry VTT and pro level Roll20 allow for adding essentially unrestricted javascripted features to your VTT experience. In that regard...

Actually - might it be that wizards refraining from clarifying their legal position, and claimed effect of the "no longer authorized" might actually be a benefit to several parties? By bringing a highly ambigous claim with weak legal basis they create a situation where actual legal action seem...

I think the take they are using is not any claim to the ownership of such animations. Rather that thia is an example of a context where they dont want to see their work used. So it has similarities with the statement that you cannot use srd material alongside "hateful" content in that they dont...

Thread for talking about the VTT policy. First out, what do the current suggestion say, and what could it aceptably say? I see two issues: one is that it appear to be possible to change at any time, as it is not strickly speaking a part of the ogl propper. Hence it is hard to justify the...

But the VTT policy is not part of that license. It is a seperate document!