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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9338019" data-attributes="member: 54840">Hi Marc! Nice to see you here on the EN Worlds!!Black Flag is actually a really interesting case in how ORC and the CC work and how the downstream flow or ORC works.Kobold Press is using the 5.1 SRD through it's CC BY 4.0 license which means they can use it however they wish, including locking down content they don't want to release. Kobold Press isn't forced to release everything in ToV under the same license because CC BY 4.0 isn't a viral license.But Kobold Press releases their material under ORC which means that anyone downstream from Black Flag must release all of their mechanical material under ORC. They can't pick and choose which mechanical bits to release and which not to (like the extra subclasses, monsters, spells, magic items, and what not). Someone downstream from Black Flag doesn't get the benefit that Kobold Press got being downstream from WOTC with the 5.1 SRD and it's non-viral CC BY 4.0 license.If I chose to use Black Flag to build some kind of supplement, I have to release everything considered mechanical content (which is a lot of stuff – monsters, spells, subclasses, magic items, etc) under the ORC license. I don't get the benefit that Kobold Press got.Also, the reality is I can make just about anything compatible with any 5e product by using the 5.1 SRD CC BY license and skip ORC completely for 5e stuff, so I don't know how much it matters.It's worth noting, of course, that Kobold Press didn't have to release anything under any license even if they use the 5.1 SRD under the CC. But that was a big part of the marketing of ToV when the whole OGL debacle was going on. Kobold Press has also been extremely generous with their release of monsters and other material under the OGL.In fact, my next 5e product is going to be using the A5e SRD because it's like 5x bigger than the 5.1 SRD and still under the CC. Thanks [USER=1]@Morrus[/USER]!I'm not complaining here. I just think its interesting to see how ORC and CC play out together from an upstream / downstream perspective.</blockquote>

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