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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4349201" data-attributes="member: 13892">You keep saying this, but it's worth mentioning that the retention of one product line has no direct bearing on the decision to stop publishing another, completely unrelated, product line under the OGL. The GSL does not require that a publisher cease to sell all OGL products that they carry, only products in those lines that that are being converted for distribution under the GSL. That is, if you have X product and Y product, both being distributed under the OGL, and want to convert X product for distribution under the GSL, you must cease to distribute X product under the OGL. You are not required to stop distibuting Y product under the GSL. Y product, in such cases, has absolutely no bearing on X product, and the GSL has no effect on Y product. As far as flying in the face of everything we already know, my assumption doesn't do that either -- it contradicts a lot of other assumptions. The fact is, that we know almost nothing about Goodman's arrangement. I'm sticking with Occam's Razor, here. I think it's likely that they could have a special agreement with WotC that allows them to jump the October 1st start date, but that still requires them to cease publishing the DCC line under the OGL (as per the terms of the GSL). I don't know why many folks seem to think that "They have a wildly different license that contradicts every aspect of the GSL!" is a more likely scenario here <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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