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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smetzger" data-source="post: 8907786" data-attributes="member: 1230">I haven't read all 32 pages...Obviously it is better and maybe usable IF you are only making content for 5e or OneD&D.  But they still don't get it that 1.0a can be used and has been used for non WOTC SRD based content.I find this very narrow, short sighed and not an Open Gaming License.  It is an Open D&D License for 5e and OneD&D and lays to waste all other iterations 3.5.1) So, no more games like Mutants and Masterminds.   Why??  How can they de-authorize a license when they are not party to any of the content released for a product line?2) No new products using 1.0a.  So, where does that leave Pathfinder (I know they are saying they will use a new license, but that wouldn't afford them the gentlemen's agreement under 1.0a) as well as other games and products based on the 3.5 SRD released under 1.0a3) No share and share alike.  That's not nice.  If Level UP switches over to this license.  Then no-one can make stuff for Level Up except Level Up.4) Computer programs seem a grey area.  Under 1.0a they were allowed, you just had to figure out how you were going to designate what was OGC.   They specifically talk about VTT.  But there are a lot of things that are not static files and are not VTT.5) This OGL 1.2 isn't a legal document, certainly doesn't read like one.  The Creative Commons is a legal document, but not this thing they are passing off as OGL 1.2.  This means there are lots of areas that are gray and not spelled out precisely enough.</blockquote>

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