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<blockquote data-quote="robconley" data-source="post: 8908627" data-attributes="member: 5636"><p>A bully walks into your home and trashes and mangles your stuff. You gather your friends and say "Hey!". Seeing the number of people there, the bully says "fine, fine, you can have some of your stuff back, the rest I am taking with me.".</p><p></p><p>What you are proposing is to compromise with a bully. Me, I want the bully to drop my naughty word and get the hell out of my house. Then if I can pay restitution.</p><p></p><p>Hasbro and Wizards' overreach inept handling of the situation has caused ongoing damage to people's livelihood within the industry. There was a reasonable expectation that the OGL 1.0a was irrevocable and the open content availability unchanged. Especially after what happened with Pathfinder, and 4e in the early 2010s. Wizard earned their way back to #1 with how they handled the development of 5e. For OneD&D they decide to play the bully. As a result, sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind.</p><p></p><p>No there is no point for the community to work with Hasbro/Wizards until the following conditions are met.</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wizards acknowledge OGL 1.0a as an <strong>authorized irrevocable license</strong>.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That all past open content remains open content under the OGL 1.0a and free to be used as they have been for the past 23 years. Works like the D20 3.0 and 3.5 SRD. The 5e 5.1 SRD as well remains under the OGL 1a.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The plan to release various sections of the 5.1 SRD under the CC-BY 4.0 license is followed through.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That Chris Cocks, CEO of Hasbro, and Cynthia William, CEO of Wizards of the Coast, each write and sign individual formal apologies to all the publishers impacted by their overreach and inept handling of the situation such as Paizo, Kobold Press, Troll Lord Games, Green Ronin, Gaming Ballistic, Frog God Games, and many others.</li> </ul><p>After those conditions are met, Wizards is free to release OneD&D content under any license they want. Although their creative and legal choices may continue to be criticized. The community is also free to pursue their creative ideas without Wizard's interference.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="robconley, post: 8908627, member: 5636"] A bully walks into your home and trashes and mangles your stuff. You gather your friends and say "Hey!". Seeing the number of people there, the bully says "fine, fine, you can have some of your stuff back, the rest I am taking with me.". What you are proposing is to compromise with a bully. Me, I want the bully to drop my naughty word and get the hell out of my house. Then if I can pay restitution. Hasbro and Wizards' overreach inept handling of the situation has caused ongoing damage to people's livelihood within the industry. There was a reasonable expectation that the OGL 1.0a was irrevocable and the open content availability unchanged. Especially after what happened with Pathfinder, and 4e in the early 2010s. Wizard earned their way back to #1 with how they handled the development of 5e. For OneD&D they decide to play the bully. As a result, sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. No there is no point for the community to work with Hasbro/Wizards until the following conditions are met. [LIST] [*]Wizards acknowledge OGL 1.0a as an [B]authorized irrevocable license[/B]. [*]That all past open content remains open content under the OGL 1.0a and free to be used as they have been for the past 23 years. Works like the D20 3.0 and 3.5 SRD. The 5e 5.1 SRD as well remains under the OGL 1a. [*]The plan to release various sections of the 5.1 SRD under the CC-BY 4.0 license is followed through. [*]That Chris Cocks, CEO of Hasbro, and Cynthia William, CEO of Wizards of the Coast, each write and sign individual formal apologies to all the publishers impacted by their overreach and inept handling of the situation such as Paizo, Kobold Press, Troll Lord Games, Green Ronin, Gaming Ballistic, Frog God Games, and many others. [/LIST] After those conditions are met, Wizards is free to release OneD&D content under any license they want. Although their creative and legal choices may continue to be criticized. The community is also free to pursue their creative ideas without Wizard's interference. [/QUOTE]
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