Making the SRDs public domain solves that problem.
The alternative is making the whole thing PD. No license needed. Leave the licensing and sub-licensing to the publishers of supplemental materials. That way, if one gets overly litigious, or tries to horde ideas, they can be cut out of the hobby while leaving the core intact. Right now, cutting out WotC would be hard. But if I had a beef with a currently existing publishing company or their work, I could just not use their parts of the game, and could use other publishers variations on whatever products I had a need for, either as a player/DM, avoiding their products, or as a potential additional game developer, deciding if I wanted to engage with whatever license version they cook up for their own products for me to interface with for my own.
3. It allows to indicate compatibility with trademarks of other works in the ecosystem.
shouldn't there still be safe guards against using hate speech sexism and racism?
In the license? I mean, there are laws about this.
No. Make that part of a separate trademark license, if you want, but anything that's open to interpretation should not be part of a new OGL.
there are not laws about being those thing here in the states... that is why the whole NuTSR thing blew up. You can be as big a jerk ass you want and put out a book.
I disagree. as long as we are connecting to Hasbro property view the license I think Hasbro has to police this.
Who gets to decide which counts as either?
I think that Hasbro thinking they should have any sort of oversight or veto power is the reason the current brouhaha is happening. An open license is only open if it doesn't allow for someone to cancel someone else's ability to use it based on their own arbitrary interpretation of their work.
