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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9432728" data-attributes="member: 54840">This is definitely a big conversation in the opensource software world as well. I'm on the side that a CC BY 4.0 license is the more open license because it allows people to publish material and decide what they want to put in the open. The more OGL-style licenses don't and actually benefit the top of the food chain more than the bottom.If WOTC had released it under a Share Alike license, they could have held back their own stuff from the SRD but force every downstream publisher to release everything under a share-alike license which would mean WOTC could use anything you created under that license but could hold their own stuff back by not putting it in a system reference document. It would have been unlikely they would have brought in stuff from downstream producers but I guarantee many people would have been suspicious of them.I'm much happier that it's out under a CC BY 4.0 license as I'm happy that Russ put out the A5e SRD under the same license. It is much friendlier to downstream producers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9432728, member: 54840"] This is definitely a big conversation in the opensource software world as well. I'm on the side that a CC BY 4.0 license is the more open license because it allows people to publish material and decide what they want to put in the open. The more OGL-style licenses don't and actually benefit the top of the food chain more than the bottom. If WOTC had released it under a Share Alike license, they could have held back their own stuff from the SRD but force every downstream publisher to release [I]everything [/I]under a share-alike license which would mean WOTC could use anything you created under that license but could hold their own stuff back by not putting it in a system reference document. It would have been unlikely they [I]would[/I] have brought in stuff from downstream producers but I guarantee many people would have been suspicious of them. I'm much happier that it's out under a CC BY 4.0 license as I'm happy that Russ put out the A5e SRD under the same license. It is much friendlier to downstream producers. [/QUOTE]

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