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Questions From Someone Who Was Looking At A5E Right Before The WOTC/OGL Nonsense
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<blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8897163" data-attributes="member: 6777331"><p>It's also providing 3PPs want to continue with the risk of using the OGL after all of this anyway. The threat alone has been enough to trigger "fire sales" of people clearing out their OGL inventory, and for a number of large players to decide to set up an alternative license with clearer terms to assure us it will always be there. The problem is that until there's a test case, that risk of de-authorization will always hang over our heads. So it's a case of examining alternatives to decide if there is an option with less risk, and weighing up all the pros and cons.</p><p></p><p>For a game that doesn't use anything from WotC's SRDs and has zero risk of them claiming copyright infringement, it seems pretty clear-cut that there are - or at least will be - better licensing options. For a game that <em>is</em> based on their SRDs, it's obviously far more complicated and would require a lot of effort to totally divorce it from those SRDs and therefore any dependency on the OGL (Paizo seem to be happy that PF2 has done so)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt Thomason, post: 8897163, member: 6777331"] It's also providing 3PPs want to continue with the risk of using the OGL after all of this anyway. The threat alone has been enough to trigger "fire sales" of people clearing out their OGL inventory, and for a number of large players to decide to set up an alternative license with clearer terms to assure us it will always be there. The problem is that until there's a test case, that risk of de-authorization will always hang over our heads. So it's a case of examining alternatives to decide if there is an option with less risk, and weighing up all the pros and cons. For a game that doesn't use anything from WotC's SRDs and has zero risk of them claiming copyright infringement, it seems pretty clear-cut that there are - or at least will be - better licensing options. For a game that [I]is[/I] based on their SRDs, it's obviously far more complicated and would require a lot of effort to totally divorce it from those SRDs and therefore any dependency on the OGL (Paizo seem to be happy that PF2 has done so) [/QUOTE]
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