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<blockquote data-quote="p_johnston" data-source="post: 8914580" data-attributes="member: 7016849">I will say that the OGL 1.2 not being an open license is part of the issue. 1) with the OGL 1.0a WOTC promised to keep an eternal open license. If they had updated to the 1.2 or 1.1 with another open license with the explanation of &quot;hey the 1.0a has some structural weaknesses and legal loopholes that we need to close for our own protection. This new license is also open and eternal but just updated to be cleaned up with modern legal language.&quot; There would likely have been blowback but not nearly the venom that WOTC is currently experiencing.2) WOTC is very much not being clear that it is not an open license. In addition to calling it the Open Gaming License they are acting like its just a new iteration of the OGL 1.0a with a few minor changes not like it's a departure to an entirely new type of license. In short even though the license they are now putting forward isn't an open license WOTC is at best being unclear about that fact and at worst is hoping to use the confusion to deceive people into believing the new OGL is something it's not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="p_johnston, post: 8914580, member: 7016849"] I will say that the OGL 1.2 not being an open license is part of the issue. 1) with the OGL 1.0a WOTC promised to keep an eternal open license. If they had updated to the 1.2 or 1.1 with another open license with the explanation of "hey the 1.0a has some structural weaknesses and legal loopholes that we need to close for our own protection. This new license is also open and eternal but just updated to be cleaned up with modern legal language." There would likely have been blowback but not nearly the venom that WOTC is currently experiencing. 2) WOTC is very much not being clear that it is not an open license. In addition to calling it the Open Gaming License they are acting like its just a new iteration of the OGL 1.0a with a few minor changes not like it's a departure to an entirely new type of license. In short even though the license they are now putting forward isn't an open license WOTC is at best being unclear about that fact and at worst is hoping to use the confusion to deceive people into believing the new OGL is something it's not. [/QUOTE]

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