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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Siltoneous" data-source="post: 8883788" data-attributes="member: 6973433">First off, I want to thank everyone for their reasoned, coherent posts.  This thread, with it's plethora of knowledgeable people posting their best 'experienced' opinion here has done a world of good to my overall outlook.  Of course this is a fluid situation, and nobody but NOBODY knows what the lay of the land is (other than perhaps WoTC/Hasbro), so an observation, and a few questions.Observation: I saw a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/to624f/comment/i2c2plz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">post </a>over on Reddit from a Paizo 'Design Manager' for PF2E (dated about 10 months ago).  From the tone of that thread, I got the impression that Paizo was aware of issues with the OGL, or simply uneasy with it.  The poster bluntly said "Not using the OGL was a serious consideration for PF2".  That the decision to keep using the OGL came down to keeping down costs (extra copyright/trade dress scrutiny requirements), and other reasons (3PP Comfort, etc..).  Unfortunately instead of seeing the license for the sheer academic compare/contrast interests, I fear WoTC's actions have now made it more likely to be seen for simple 'CYA' reasons.Then when I saw the post post about WoTC/Hasbro going nuclear though, I had to wonder... There are/were lots of former WoTC people at Paizo, and I'd have no problem believing that if WoTC/Hasbro was even glancing at a 'nuclear' option approach, Paizo would have probably heard about it.  I also have no hesitation in believing Paizo has a "Wing Defense Plan R"(*) directive somewhere in their headquarters too.Anyone feeling like giving a wild a** guess (WAG) on what kind of things would/should we expect from a publisher when they move from one license to another (GPL/Paizo/OpenLicense x.x/whatever).  Does the producer simply issue an update to their existing product, including the new license along side the OGL? Or would they need to make a material/substantive change to their current product before releasing it as a new version/edition with the new license and no OGL?Secondly, what's a good WAG on the timeframe here? Something we'll see go down in the next 3-4 months, or does WoTC keep treating this as a FUD campaign, and drag it out as long as possible? I (like many here) think the longer this goes on, the worse the poisoning damage to WoTC, but then again I'm occasionally accused of being rational. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(*) Reference to the 'Wing Attack Plan R' in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.</blockquote>

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