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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8214536" data-attributes="member: 3400">The whole license change thing was a debacle at WotC - it cost them Paizo support as well as one of their biggest cheerleaders in the 3pp community at the time - Necromancer Games's Clark Peterson. The license was announced, they even had an early adopter benefit (in return for cash) so that 3pp stuff could be in place for 4e's launch - but the license just wasn't coming out and the reasonable deadlines for producing anything were fast approaching. So Paizo, which had made its name on licenses - particularly ones from WotC - and had been dependent on them, decided they had to forge a separate path and went with OGL-based Pathfinder which they could control because that license couldn't be revoked or terminated. Scott Peterson stayed optimistic but when the first version of the GSL came out, being a lawyer and carefully reviewing the terms, he didn't find the license acceptable. WotC revised them and Scott ended up declaring that he still couldn't submit to them and, just like that, WotC had lost its two historically most enthusiastic 3pp allies to Pathfinder. I've seen rumors around the internet that the license issue may have been a pretty storm affair among some circles at WotC. I'd love to see an insider account or post-mortem on the whole thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8214536, member: 3400"] The whole license change thing was a debacle at WotC - it cost them Paizo support as well as one of their biggest cheerleaders in the 3pp community at the time - Necromancer Games's Clark Peterson. The license was announced, they even had an early adopter benefit (in return for cash) so that 3pp stuff could be in place for 4e's launch - but the license just wasn't coming out and the reasonable deadlines for producing anything were fast approaching. So Paizo, which had made its name on licenses - particularly ones from WotC - and had been dependent on them, decided they had to forge a separate path and went with OGL-based Pathfinder which [b]they[/b] could control because that license couldn't be revoked or terminated. Scott Peterson stayed optimistic but when the first version of the GSL came out, being a lawyer and carefully reviewing the terms, he didn't find the license acceptable. WotC revised them and Scott ended up declaring that he still couldn't submit to them and, just like that, WotC had lost its two historically most enthusiastic 3pp allies to Pathfinder. I've seen rumors around the internet that the license issue may have been a pretty storm affair among some circles at WotC. I'd [b]love[/b] to see an insider account or post-mortem on the whole thing. [/QUOTE]

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