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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 5931647" data-attributes="member: 11821">It's not one of my own major issues.  However, while it says nothing to the quality of the game itself, it might say everything to the quality of supplements available for it.  Which is a perfectly rational requirement.  And honestly, I think it would do more than almost anything else WotC could do to make Next a "welcoming" edition.I don't consider it an ethical issue; it's a business one.  But I think a smart license would be a very good move.  I don't think making it as open as the OGL is necessarily a good idea, but it's a less-bad idea than keeping the terms of the GSL or closing off the game entirely.  Making it open enough so that third parties can operate in relative confidence within the boundaries of the license, without the poison pills in the GSL, would be pretty great.-O</blockquote>