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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 1493586" data-attributes="member: 2642">And there you go again.  Even though I ahve already challenged you on this once, you keep with the circular arguments - you have yet to make any serious attempt to explain why you feel these actions are unethical.  (Actually you seemed to have backed off from that for a while there, but now here you're saying it again.)  That is precisely what people are questioning.  What, specifically, is unethical here?  You seem to think the answer is obvious to all, but plainly it isn't.  We're not arguing with you because we want to get away with doing things we think are wrong, we're arguing with you because there's no obvious reason to think they are wrong.Again, specifics please.  What trust is being violated?  If anyone is violating a trust, it's those publishers (which may or may not include WotC, and do to some extent appear to include at least one otherwise excellent "name" publisher) who release material under the OGL and then try to stop people from excercising the rights the OGL gives them.All of these products say, straight out, in black and white, that you can use their open content pretty much however you please with only minimal strings attached.  I would be pretty upset at any publisher who did that and then tried to stop me from taking them at their word, and downright furious at one that tried to convince me that the OGL doesn't say what it obviously says.You may not be attacking anyone, but that last sentence, besides being factually wrong, is pretty damn condescending.  Nobody is questioning your motives and for someone accusing others of doing so you're sure doing a lot of it yourself.  Instead of repeating the same stand over and over (and in ways that, whether you realize it or not, do in fact border on the insulting), why don't you try backing up your claims with solid reasons, as most others have been trying to do?</blockquote>

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