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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 8899785" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>I think that if you're only looking at the past 20 years and not looking to the next 20 years and what might happen or could happen in that span of time, then you're not looking at this the same way WotC is looking at this. Yeah, it could definitely still be either simply overblown or a lie designed to placate the community. I believe it could also be people trying to do a good job at protecting the brand (which means exerting more control over content where they can), and I'm describing why I am keeping that possibility open.</p><p></p><p>So I'm entering the possibility as something one might want to entertain, if you're inclined to be open-minded about it. But at the end of the day, it's all just reading tea leaves to divine the intentions of people we'll never meet. Regardless of their actual intentions, what I'm very confident of is that their next version of this is still going to have some kind of "don't do naughty things under this license" clause, and that no amount of community grousing will get them to abandon <strong>that</strong> aspect of it.</p><p></p><p>Where I think we might have more leverage is in this de-authorization thing, It's a lot less clear to me why that would be something they'd really want to keep, especially as it is also likely to be the thing that is the most risky to the community and legally dubious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 8899785, member: 2067"] I think that if you're only looking at the past 20 years and not looking to the next 20 years and what might happen or could happen in that span of time, then you're not looking at this the same way WotC is looking at this. Yeah, it could definitely still be either simply overblown or a lie designed to placate the community. I believe it could also be people trying to do a good job at protecting the brand (which means exerting more control over content where they can), and I'm describing why I am keeping that possibility open. So I'm entering the possibility as something one might want to entertain, if you're inclined to be open-minded about it. But at the end of the day, it's all just reading tea leaves to divine the intentions of people we'll never meet. Regardless of their actual intentions, what I'm very confident of is that their next version of this is still going to have some kind of "don't do naughty things under this license" clause, and that no amount of community grousing will get them to abandon [B]that[/B] aspect of it. Where I think we might have more leverage is in this de-authorization thing, It's a lot less clear to me why that would be something they'd really want to keep, especially as it is also likely to be the thing that is the most risky to the community and legally dubious. [/QUOTE]
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