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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8887397" data-attributes="member: 463">Alexander Macris has posted an article on Substack raising several interesting legal points about the wording of the 1.1 licence:[URL unfurl="true"]https://arbiterofworlds.substack.com/p/the-perfidious-treachery-of-wotc?fbclid=IwAR2RwJW2vY3D9YHoh-TK4FuO-8F5zuYUrRb-jxdP6UTGuqUGaibTKe4fYgk[/URL]Notably:Read the first sentence: "you cannot earn income from any SRD-based D&D content you create on or after January 13, 2023.” Now read the last sentence: “If you want to publish SRD-based content on or after January 13, 2023, your only option is to agree.”Creating content and publishing content are not the same thing. The way this statement is phrased, WOTC has left it very unclear whether game studios can continue to publish works made under OGL 1.0. The first sentence suggests “yes, you can,” but the last sentence says “no, you can’t.” Until WOTC clarifies its intent, we can’t know for sure. Given how egregious the rest of the terms are, though, I’m not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. WOTC could be taking the position that no one is able to publish even existing OGL 1.0 material after the 13th.</blockquote>