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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4120566" data-attributes="member: 22779">Why isn't it still open?  The GSL is every bit as open as the old STL.  Yes, it is not as open as the OGL, true, but, that doesn't make it closed.  It's still an open license.  I think that you'll find that the decision was made after a number of companies abandoned D&D to use the OGL to make their own self sufficient companies that now directly compete, rather than complement, WOTC.99% of the material out there could be published under the STL.  It was only after the debacle with the Book of Erotic Fantasy that the OGL became THE thing to publish under.  But, the difference between the two licenses is very minor and wouldn't affect most publishers.  Where the difference comes in is with publishers like, for example, Mongoose, who are using the OGL in combination with licensed products to publish games that have nothing to do with D&D.  Yes, I know about the ideas of network externalities, but, I'm thinking that maybe, allowing companies to piggyback on the thousands of dollars of development you pour into your system without supporting your system isn't good business sense.So, because it's an opinion it somehow changes the fact that he's saying that the system is bad?  How does that work?  I can appreciate prefering a systematic solution.  Heck, I probably agree with you.  But, I wouldn't say that a systematic solution is somehow the RIGHT solution and anything else is the WRONG solution.  I would say that this solution isn't one that I agree with and wonder why it was being done this way.  But, to presume that you can make objective value judgments based on your or my personal preference is, well, rather presumptuous.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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