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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8907179" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Right, but the thing is, I don’t think you need this Creative Commons license to do that anyway. Like, I’ve been consistently saying “the fact that game mechanics can’t by copyrighted isn’t the ironclad defense some people seem to think it is,” but the portions of the SRD that they’re releasing under Creative Commons are only the parts that it would be incredibly difficult to argue are anything but game mechanics.Unfortunately (in my opinion), I think this will actually satisfy a lot of people on the anti-WotC side of the fence. It’s a really, really sneaky move, because saying “we’ll license the core rules under Creative Commons except anything that’s quintessentially D&amp;D,” sounds fantastic, if you don’t read into it any further than that. But if you look closely, it turns out they aren’t actually licensing anything you would need a license for in the first place. Meanwhile, they’re still trying to deauthorize OGL 1.0a.So, basically, WotC is offering a trade: They want: us to forfeit our rights to ever produce new content using the 3e or 5e SRDs, and in exchange they will give us: a limited selection of content already licensed to us under the OGL, which we didn’t need a license for anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8907179, member: 6779196"] Right, but the thing is, I don’t think you need this Creative Commons license to do that anyway. Like, I’ve been consistently saying “the fact that game mechanics can’t by copyrighted isn’t the ironclad defense some people seem to think it is,” but the portions of the SRD that they’re releasing under Creative Commons are only the parts that it would be incredibly difficult to argue are anything but game mechanics. Unfortunately (in my opinion), I think this will actually satisfy a lot of people on the anti-WotC side of the fence. It’s a really, really sneaky move, because saying “we’ll license the core rules under Creative Commons except anything that’s quintessentially D&D,” sounds fantastic, if you don’t read into it any further than that. But if you look closely, it turns out they aren’t actually licensing anything you would need a license for in the first place. Meanwhile, they’re still trying to deauthorize OGL 1.0a. So, basically, WotC is offering a trade: They want: us to forfeit our rights to ever produce new content using the 3e or 5e SRDs, and in exchange they will give us: a limited selection of content already licensed to us under the OGL, which we didn’t need a license for anyway. [/QUOTE]

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