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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8915072" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>In my opinion we need to accept nothing less than a perpetual OGL 1.0a for the 5E SRD. A nice gesture would be to put the whole 5E SRD into creative commons or ORC as a show of good faith that they won't try to back out again.</p><p></p><p>Moving 5E (and 3E) to a new more restrictive license represents a breach of trust and a betrayal to the community.</p><p></p><p>Moving 5E out of OGL 1.0a is unworkable anyway because of the number of sublicensed products. Level Up for example is built off of OGL 1.0a and WOTC said existing products could still be published. So ENWorld can't build new Level Up products that leverage WOTC 5E content, but they can sell existing products. Now what if I am another 3rd party and I build supplements for Level Up? I am using OGL 1.0a, but I am sublicensing through a product that is not a WOTC product. Theoretically I can't use WOTC material going forward since they are pulling it, but I wasn't referencing WOTC material anyway, I was basing it off of ENWORLD material, that already exists, and that material is allowed to keep being sold!</p><p></p><p>That said, I think this argument is 5E specific. It is within WOTC's right to come up with a new closed "Open Gaming License" for ONE. And it is within the communities right to stay with 5E as many did with 3E/Pathfinder 15 years ago or so after WOTC published 4E under the GSL.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8915072, member: 7030563"] In my opinion we need to accept nothing less than a perpetual OGL 1.0a for the 5E SRD. A nice gesture would be to put the whole 5E SRD into creative commons or ORC as a show of good faith that they won't try to back out again. Moving 5E (and 3E) to a new more restrictive license represents a breach of trust and a betrayal to the community. Moving 5E out of OGL 1.0a is unworkable anyway because of the number of sublicensed products. Level Up for example is built off of OGL 1.0a and WOTC said existing products could still be published. So ENWorld can't build new Level Up products that leverage WOTC 5E content, but they can sell existing products. Now what if I am another 3rd party and I build supplements for Level Up? I am using OGL 1.0a, but I am sublicensing through a product that is not a WOTC product. Theoretically I can't use WOTC material going forward since they are pulling it, but I wasn't referencing WOTC material anyway, I was basing it off of ENWORLD material, that already exists, and that material is allowed to keep being sold! That said, I think this argument is 5E specific. It is within WOTC's right to come up with a new closed "Open Gaming License" for ONE. And it is within the communities right to stay with 5E as many did with 3E/Pathfinder 15 years ago or so after WOTC published 4E under the GSL. [/QUOTE]
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