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<blockquote data-quote="glass" data-source="post: 8920573" data-attributes="member: 12251"><p>Funnily enough, I am also in architecture (although I am an architectural technologist, not an architect).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the point is that WotC doing the 1.0b things and rereleasing their SRDs under it eliminates (or at least significantly reduces) the threat of their going nuclear lawfare on the OGL in the future. You are correct that it does nothing to prevent, say, Rogue Genius Games from doing that (unless and until they also republish their OGC under 1.0b), but that for me was never much of a concern in the first place.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It is arguably more open with respect to the 5e SRD. Which is a rounding error in the total amount of OGC.</p><p></p><p>For <em>everything else</em> you cannot unring the bell. And WotC is not even trying particularly hard to unring the bell (notice that they said they are not deauthorising OGL 1.0a, not that they cannot, or even that they never will).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You contradict yourself here. If OGL 1.0b cannot fix the issues with 1.0a, then CC-BY 4.0 definitely cannot!</p><p></p><p><em>ETA: Missed a bit:</em></p><p>Not exactly. OGL 1.0b would be compatible with OGL 1.0a and OGL 1.0, which AIUI CC-BY 4.0 is not. It would also, in this hypothetical, cover all the WotC SRDs not just the relatively tiny 5e SRD. And it would have the virality the ability to carve out PI, both of which CC-BY lacks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="glass, post: 8920573, member: 12251"] Funnily enough, I am also in architecture (although I am an architectural technologist, not an architect). Anyway, the point is that WotC doing the 1.0b things and rereleasing their SRDs under it eliminates (or at least significantly reduces) the threat of their going nuclear lawfare on the OGL in the future. You are correct that it does nothing to prevent, say, Rogue Genius Games from doing that (unless and until they also republish their OGC under 1.0b), but that for me was never much of a concern in the first place. It is arguably more open with respect to the 5e SRD. Which is a rounding error in the total amount of OGC. For [I]everything else[/I] you cannot unring the bell. And WotC is not even trying particularly hard to unring the bell (notice that they said they are not deauthorising OGL 1.0a, not that they cannot, or even that they never will). You contradict yourself here. If OGL 1.0b cannot fix the issues with 1.0a, then CC-BY 4.0 definitely cannot! [I]ETA: Missed a bit:[/I] Not exactly. OGL 1.0b would be compatible with OGL 1.0a and OGL 1.0, which AIUI CC-BY 4.0 is not. It would also, in this hypothetical, cover all the WotC SRDs not just the relatively tiny 5e SRD. And it would have the virality the ability to carve out PI, both of which CC-BY lacks. [/QUOTE]
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