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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8896857" data-attributes="member: 6777331">I think it's that the people there at the time it was written knew exactly what it meant (as did those of us who worked with the OGL from the start) - anyone can use anyone else's contributions that are marked as Open Game Content.  We can use WotCs, they can also use ours, we can all use each other's.  23 years ago it was all pretty clear to all parties involved.However, those people are gone, and between today's management and the people writing the social media posts they're saying whatever sounds like it'll go down best with the audience without worrying too much about inconvenient things like facts.  They may be outright lying intentionally, or they might simply be clueless as to why the OGL was created.  Still, like you say, there's strong indicators that we cannot trust them today like we did back then.</blockquote>