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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1492814" data-attributes="member: 10201">If that's the case, why did they make a viral license? If all they wanted was sourcebooks for D&D3E, why not release the content under a license that allows free reuse, subject to certain restrictions (such as those in the D20STL), but without any requirement to make those supplement open-content?The actual actions pursued don't support your hypothesis of the policies behind them. Why release your content under a license specifically modeled after the GPL, if not to encourage GPL-style [re]use? Why divorce the licensing restrictions (the D20STL) from the content (the D20SRD) if you are only interested in promoting your brand? Why have the D20STL and WotC OGL be separate licenses at all?Possibly. Perhaps by then, the combined might of D20 System publishers will be sufficient that, given the choice between a more-restricted D&D license, or continuing to publish/expand on D20 System stuff, D20 System will be the choice. Ideally*, D20 System will trump D&D in the long run, brand-wise, and the makers of D&D will have to seriously consider *not* using an evolution of it for their next edition.* n.b.: i said "ideally"--i have no illusions that it is likely.</blockquote>