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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9697501" data-attributes="member: 6779310">You don't have a right to use other people's things. That they license it should be more than enough; the OGL has created a whole class of self-entitlement-delusion individuals demanding everything be made available free. They are, fundamentally, thugs demanding Devs work for nothing.it's not like companies haven't abused the OGL, either. Mongoose owes a significant portion of its initial success to just doing a different format relayout of the 3e SRD into a smaller size, and selling it cheap. It was purely plagiarism, but done within the term of the OGL 1.0a. They didn't add content value, only format value. And no copies sold benefitted the guys who wrote that text.To me, that's fundamentally dishonest. Pathfinder was  not quite dishonest. If they'd pulled a Mongoose, and just reprinted the SRD, I'd find that offensive; they altered, added too, and adapted it quite a bit. But they still don't pay the guys who have the legal and moral right to expect compensation for their work.The issue of copyright is that it's lasting way too long. In both the UK and US, copyright is there to encourage creation by giving a suitable period of exclusive economic use. That period is too long now, and is inhibiting creative use... but the demand for instantly releasing OGL is going the other way, literally moving to almost no exclusive use.</blockquote>