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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 4426817" data-attributes="member: 51747">Take WEG's d6 for example. Less then a month before the GSL's launch, WEG announced the Open d6 project. It would have a whole new license, similar to the OGL, but different enough to get around the GSL. (That was before anyone outside of WotC saw the GSL and before Gibson gave up on WEG).  Hypothetical Situation: For the sake of argument that that actually happened. Mongoose decides they want Wraith Recon in both 4E and d6. Wizards decides they don't like that and they change the GSL to include WEG's OGL-esque license. What then?  Wizards has the potential to include every single licensed product out there. Its even possible that they can write the GSL to include inhouse systems. Potential abuse of power.  The GSL can be changed at any point in time, without warning. So "WotC's Goals" today and "WotC's Goals" future must be taken into account. People forge the direction of a company. WotC today is different then WotC of 8 years ago. It is only logical to assume that WotC future is going to be different then WotC today. Wizards today might be fine with above hypothetical sitiuation while whoever's at Wizards 3 years from now might not find it such a good idea.   How? By creating True20 and Pathfinder? That was its intended use from the beginning and Dancey said as much before it launched. Mongoose had a great idea with Traveller. They didn't release the core book in their SRD, they released the ability for 3rd party companies to make traveller compatable products. They used a Smart SRD design.  Wizards is full of smart people. They could have made it work. OGL 1.0A says open material can be published with any version of OGL license. They could have made OGL 2.0A that was more restrictive and made the D&DSTL that said you had to use OGL 2.0A and the 3.x srd's cannot be listed in the OGL2.0's section 15 in order to use the D&DSTL. They didn't. They wanted some thing they could terminate, at any point in time. Once D&DSTL ran out, people would just go back to OGL 1.0A.  Wizards doesn't want that.</blockquote>

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