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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6688525" data-attributes="member: 40166">Why should a 3PP clutter their book with legalese? The OGL forces the 3PP to do so, but the CC-BY doesn't. If a third party publisher, working with a CC-BY system, wants to contribute material back as OGC, stuff another PDF in the ebook download. (Yes, those who only get the physical book wouldn't get it; how common is that in 3PP cases?) Or send it to a System Commons, and actually add small bits and pieces to the existing SRD in a way maximally convenient way for Commons. When I'm talking about "meaningfully compel", I'm talking about what's been added because they had to; Paizo has gone above and beyond what they had to, as have a lot of publishers. People who would have done it anyway don't need a restrictive license to make them play. It's clear a community can be built around a non-share alike license. It's also clear, especially for the OGL, that people can build works on a free license without making anything clearly reusable. The OGL instead of the CC-BY probably freed up some material, but there's a lot of stuff restrictively limited, ranging from clearly inside the OGL to clearly outside it (but are you going to challenge it?).</blockquote>