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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6688600" data-attributes="member: 22779">But wasn't one of the points of the OGL to create cross pollination?  That you would have 3pp bringing out material, using WOTC's sandbox, that everyone could then turn around and use?  It's the good and the bad point about the OGL, IMO.  Yup, you get to use all that nifty stuff, but, no, you don't get to be all possessive about it.  But there were some publishers that would use the OGL and then turn around and be very loudly protective of anything they created, despite the fact that the very license they are using to create their content specifically allows other people to do that.Until the advent of 4e, anyone bringing up the idea of a 3e Wiki to collate all the 3e OGC out there was very quickly shouted down.  Publishers complained about other people "stealing" their work.  When a new version of the Mutants and Masterminds book came out, someone banged out a Hypertext SRD almost immediately and Green Ronin went through the roof.  Again, despite the fact that the guy doing the Hypertext version was doing absolutely nothing wrong.There's was always lots and lots of talk about how WOTC should be doing more to make things easier for other publishers, but, when the shoe was on the other foot, there was an awful lot of rancor towards anyone who wanted to reprint OGC.Thing is, while a Share-Alike license was not desired by some 3PP's the OGL was already right there and the intent was certainly there that 3PP weren't supposed to turn around and create Broken OGC.  The whole story, like a lot of things, is not one sided.</blockquote>

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