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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2764016" data-attributes="member: 957">In your opinion, why is the OGL set up to clearly permit morally wrong activity?While I agree 100% with publishers statements about how how a wiki would impact them and what there reposnse would be, I find claims that it is morally wrong to be pretty shallow.  It doesn't have anything to do with "all information is free".  It has everything to do with this specific information has been voluntarily declared open and freely useable in any manner that anyone wants so long as they comply with the OGL.If you don't like it, that is fine.  But that doesn't even begin to touch on making it immoral.  If you don't want your stuff to be available for free, don't make OGC.  You're going to lose some built in market if you do that.  It is a choice you have to make.  Anyway, the OGL was not made to encourage 3rd party publishers to build off of each other.  That is a secondary benefit and a selling point, no doubt.  But that isn't the purpose that made it happen.  It was made to cultivate the market for selling D&D products from WotC.  A wiki would probably play directly into that goal.I don't want to see a wiki because it would have a negative impact on new product for my games.But there would be nothing at all immoral about it.Just as the fans, 2nd tier re-publishers MUST comply fully with the OGL, so must the original publishers.  If someone release OGC and then tries to pressure other into not beign allowed their rights under the OGL, that comes cloer to being immoral than freely releasing OGC in an OGL-compliant manner.It is a two way street with cost and value both.</blockquote>

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