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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 9638814" data-attributes="member: 10531"><p>That they aren't going to dual-license 5.2 under the OGL is the next thing to meaningless. CC-BY 4.0 is quite permissive, and it's very easy to use material released under it with OGL material (ask your lawyer if you're vague on it). If you're used to the open source software world, it's roughly analogous to combining three-clause BSD (CC-BY 4.0) code with GPL 2.0 (OGL 1.0a) code.</p><p></p><p>(Combining CC-BY-SA and OGL would be likely impossible, for all that both licenses have basically the same share-alike goal. The fact that CC-BY does not have share-alike provisions is <em>why</em> it is pretty comfortably compatible with the OGL.)</p><p></p><p>Note that technically, 4e did have an SRD (for use with the GSL). I've got a copy, and you can grab it from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160503060737/http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/4E_SRD.pdf" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>. It's just an eighty-page list of names and layout templates, but it might be nice for some people if it was dropped under CC BY 4.0. It would at least make it somewhat easier to release 4th edition adventures.</p><p></p><p>Therefore, there have been four pre-5th edition WotC SRDs made public at some point -- the original (3rd edition) SRD, the Modern SRD, the Revised (3.5) SRD, and the 4th Edition SRD. Even 3 and 3.5 would be enough to technically justify pluralizing "editions", but hoping for all four SRDs doesn't seem unreasonable.</p><p></p><p>(I wouldn't particularly hold my breath expecting WotC to go and create new SRDs based on pre-3rd editions, or expand the existing 4e SRD. They <em>might</em>, but . . . )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="see, post: 9638814, member: 10531"] That they aren't going to dual-license 5.2 under the OGL is the next thing to meaningless. CC-BY 4.0 is quite permissive, and it's very easy to use material released under it with OGL material (ask your lawyer if you're vague on it). If you're used to the open source software world, it's roughly analogous to combining three-clause BSD (CC-BY 4.0) code with GPL 2.0 (OGL 1.0a) code. (Combining CC-BY-SA and OGL would be likely impossible, for all that both licenses have basically the same share-alike goal. The fact that CC-BY does not have share-alike provisions is [I]why[/I] it is pretty comfortably compatible with the OGL.) Note that technically, 4e did have an SRD (for use with the GSL). I've got a copy, and you can grab it from the [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20160503060737/http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/4E_SRD.pdf']Internet Archive[/URL]. It's just an eighty-page list of names and layout templates, but it might be nice for some people if it was dropped under CC BY 4.0. It would at least make it somewhat easier to release 4th edition adventures. Therefore, there have been four pre-5th edition WotC SRDs made public at some point -- the original (3rd edition) SRD, the Modern SRD, the Revised (3.5) SRD, and the 4th Edition SRD. Even 3 and 3.5 would be enough to technically justify pluralizing "editions", but hoping for all four SRDs doesn't seem unreasonable. (I wouldn't particularly hold my breath expecting WotC to go and create new SRDs based on pre-3rd editions, or expand the existing 4e SRD. They [I]might[/I], but . . . ) [/QUOTE]
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