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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7660730" data-attributes="member: 6689464">Actually the ogl only has two benefits: 1) it is a warranty you won't be sued by WotC, 2) it allows you to liberally copy entire sections from the srd verbatim. Appart form it, it doesn't let you do anything you couldn't do by fair use, in fact you renounce certain rights when using the OGL. But from a certain point of view it made a lot of sense to do it:1) It created goodwill in the aftermath of the later TSR days, where the company went so lawsuit happy on fans and 3PP. 2) Many people don't get copyright, so it lets them have a certain degree of control over 3PP by restricting them from doing certain things.3) By the wording of it, it was a way for Ryan Dancey to make sure no company could ever safely kill the game.</blockquote>