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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2764192" data-attributes="member: 18549">Right.  And you did so willingly and with knowledge of the consequences of your actions.  If you have given permission for the material to be used in a particular way, and it gets used in this way, you have no cause for complaint.  You arranged for that situation to come to pass.  As they say, democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other ones.  Sure, democracy has its bad points, but one would hardly call supporters of democracy immoral because of that.  The OGL is the best system we have for this sort of distribution.  You might not like all the consequences of the license, but they were there before you started publishing (except, perhaps, for the mind flayer bits).  Presumably, you saw the flaws and decided to publish under the OGL anyway.  In that case, you agreed to a certain flawed set of rules and have no right to call foul on people who are also playing by the same flawed set of rules.  Reserve the venom for people who break the rules, like the publisher who failed to credit Mr. Reed.</blockquote>