We All Won – The OGL Three Years Later

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah, but given my access of info at the time and what I observed, I have a hard time trusting the OGL Jesus bit as anything other than another scam.

Are you talking about the original introduction of the OGL?

@RyanD appears to have been a genuine true believer in open licenses, which are a concept that predate them being introduced for RPGs. If he had to sell it in-house as a way to take stuff off of WotC's plate that they were excited about doing anyway, that hardly seems sinister, but just doing a good job of coalition-building in-house.

 

[dbolack]

how would a boutique gaming license that's little understood and without any legal definition be better than the widespread and participatory license used around the world?

I would say that it all depends on how you feel about PI. If you think being able to declare PI ( even if potentially abused ) is a valuable thing, then the CC licenses are problematic.

 

[dbolack]

Are you talking about the original introduction of the OGL?

@RyanD appears to have been a genuine true believer in open licenses, which are a concept that predate them being introduced for RPGs. If he had to sell it in-house as a way to take stuff off of WotC's plate that they were excited about doing anyway, that hardly seems sinister, but just doing a good job of coalition-building in-house.

Before it was an open license discussion, even...

 

[bsss]

The OGL can't be revoked either. That was always the point.

Right, that the OGL v1.0/v1.0a could --- would --- be revoked by a WotC decree was essentially them spreading FUD that got folks worked up. The aftermath is the result of that FUD.