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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9647669" data-attributes="member: 54840">There are ways to designate what parts of a work are released under a CC license but it is much easier to just publish a separate document with the stuff you want to release. This is also the case with the OGL and ORC, though – it's exactly what both WOTC and Kobold Press did anyway.Speaking as a publisher, figuring out what parts to mark as product identity and what not to can be tricky too. It's just easier for me to publish a whole document I can point to and say &quot;you can use anything in this under the CC BY&quot; license.A Kobold Press representative stated explicitly here on EN World that they held back content from the Black Flag license because they didn't want to give away too much. This was specifically mechanical content (ToV's extra subclasses).Yeah, that's my issue. If Kobold Press released all of TOV under ORC, that'd be one thing. If they released Black Flag under a CC BY license, that would also be fine. But releasing a subset of TOV under ORC but not the rest of it gave them the option to limit mechanical material but did not give that right to anyone publishing downstream from Black Flag. That bugs me. I still remain a big fan and collaborator with Kobold Press regardless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9647669, member: 54840"] There are ways to designate what parts of a work are released under a CC license but it is much easier to just publish a separate document with the stuff you want to release. This is also the case with the OGL and ORC, though – it's exactly what both WOTC and Kobold Press did anyway. Speaking as a publisher, figuring out what parts to mark as product identity and what not to can be tricky too. It's just easier for me to publish a whole document I can point to and say "you can use anything in this under the CC BY" license. A Kobold Press representative stated explicitly here on EN World that they held back content from the Black Flag license because they didn't want to give away too much. This was specifically mechanical content (ToV's extra subclasses). Yeah, that's my issue. If Kobold Press released all of TOV under ORC, that'd be one thing. If they released Black Flag under a CC BY license, that would also be fine. But releasing a subset of TOV under ORC but not the rest of it gave them the option to limit mechanical material but did not give that right to anyone publishing downstream from Black Flag. That bugs me. I still remain a big fan and collaborator with Kobold Press regardless. [/QUOTE]

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