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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 9638611" data-attributes="member: 7037141">Appreciate the update, but for those of us who have been following this closely, we have been waiting since Kyle Brink announced that wotc would release the 3.0/3.5 SRD into the CC, back in December of 2023. He said that there was no reason that it wouldn't be released in 2024. Over a year later, we are still waiting for wotc to fulfill their promise to the community.Here is an interview with Kyle Brink, timestamped to the relevant part of the conversation.[MEDIA=youtube]vk9FuEAz53M:846[/MEDIA]I do understand your position, but I also think that this is taking a step back, rather than a step forward. "But that's always been what we've said" is false. Those who have followed the events of the OGL crisis have seen wotc change their stance so many times that this simply cannot be true.Furthermore, what is left to review? I am very familiar with the 3rd Edition SRD's, and there are no traces of any of wotc's intellectual property (you removed everything from beholders to displacer beasts from the SRD. Using the OGL license even forbids you from using real world historic terms like Hades, Arcadia, Elysium, and so on), as I am pretty certain that wotc hired copyright lawyers to go over this over two decades ago when the SRD was first released to the public.If there was anything in the 3rd Edition SRD's that could have threatened wotc's IP, they could have made their move to revoke the OGL sooner, rather than over 24 years later. Not to mention that for those of us who have been using the SRD for this long, we are fully aware of the D20 STL revocation (you revoked it, doing significant damage to the publishers using that license, also doing significant harm to LGS' at the time many went out of business). We also watched as wotc released the 4th edition GSL (the worst poison-pill license, up until the release of the 1.1 OGL). From the perspective of someone who has been watching this behavior from wotc decades, this is nothing new. If you want to get back on the same page as the publishers that have supported you for 24 years, I think it would be productive to not treat us like we have no memory of wotc's previous actions towards the publishing community.The 1.1 OGL was not the first time, nor will it likely be the last that this will happen. And many of us remember, because we were personally affected by wotc's policies.</blockquote>

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