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WotC Backs Down: Original OGL To Be Left Untouched; Whole 5E Rules Released as Creative Commons
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<blockquote data-quote="Ashtagon" data-source="post: 8919276" data-attributes="member: 72335"><p>There are subtle but important differences between CC, OGL 1.0a, and a hypothetical "irrevocable text clearly added" 1.0b.</p><p></p><p>Let's suppose for the sake of argument the entirely of the 5e, d20m, and 3.5e SRDs are released to CC.</p><p></p><p>Any publisher that wants to publish under CC is limited to their own work plus the SRD, plus anything written by another 3PP under CC. The work from the last two decades is off-limits to them, because that was released under the OGL. This will restrict the flexibility than many publishers had before WotC got drunk on power.</p><p></p><p>And what about the content released under the 1.0a OGL by publishers and writers that are no longer with us? If the publisher is active, a full rewrite (or a separate SRD document, which amounts to almost the same amount of work) would be necessary to properly label the CC content. A "hibernating" publisher can't do this, due to lack of resources. Even some of the smaller active publishers might find it an onerous task. In contrast, even a "hibernating" publisher could republish a book with the 1.0a OGL changed to a 1.0b OGL and no other changes.</p><p></p><p>Fixing the OGL -- not just retaining, but actually fixing -- is what will preserve the legacy content for the purpose of remixing it into newer published content. Simply putting all the SRD content into CC doesn't enable this.</p><p></p><p>In the case of some books, the original writer is no longer with us, and as a one-man band, their "publisher" died with them. That content is forever locked into the 1.0a OGL. But even so, if there is a fixed 1.0b OGL, the mere existence of that 1.0b OGL would make it practically impossible for WotC to ever invalidate the 1.0a (despite the lack of "irrevocable" text), because the revised version would demonstrate continuing intent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashtagon, post: 8919276, member: 72335"] There are subtle but important differences between CC, OGL 1.0a, and a hypothetical "irrevocable text clearly added" 1.0b. Let's suppose for the sake of argument the entirely of the 5e, d20m, and 3.5e SRDs are released to CC. Any publisher that wants to publish under CC is limited to their own work plus the SRD, plus anything written by another 3PP under CC. The work from the last two decades is off-limits to them, because that was released under the OGL. This will restrict the flexibility than many publishers had before WotC got drunk on power. And what about the content released under the 1.0a OGL by publishers and writers that are no longer with us? If the publisher is active, a full rewrite (or a separate SRD document, which amounts to almost the same amount of work) would be necessary to properly label the CC content. A "hibernating" publisher can't do this, due to lack of resources. Even some of the smaller active publishers might find it an onerous task. In contrast, even a "hibernating" publisher could republish a book with the 1.0a OGL changed to a 1.0b OGL and no other changes. Fixing the OGL -- not just retaining, but actually fixing -- is what will preserve the legacy content for the purpose of remixing it into newer published content. Simply putting all the SRD content into CC doesn't enable this. In the case of some books, the original writer is no longer with us, and as a one-man band, their "publisher" died with them. That content is forever locked into the 1.0a OGL. But even so, if there is a fixed 1.0b OGL, the mere existence of that 1.0b OGL would make it practically impossible for WotC to ever invalidate the 1.0a (despite the lack of "irrevocable" text), because the revised version would demonstrate continuing intent. [/QUOTE]
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