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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 8908163" data-attributes="member: 2067">It really looks like the big sticking point here is the revocation of 1.0a - it's not something they're budging on, and it's something that is critical for 3PPs who already use it. Revoking the existing SRDs is absolutely a problem. Open content doesn't go back into the bottle, that's not how "open" works. You can put more in, but you can't take out what's already there. It's in the wild, and an attempt to drag it back is absolutely a breach of trust and is reason enough to go with something like ORC. Revoking the 1.0a license for games that aren't even using the SRD is likewise a non-starter. 1.0a needs to remain what it is, to be used by whoever wants to use it, forever. That's one of the big goals of 1.0a - to ensure that no one company controls D&D, so that it can be played forever by anyone for free, using the SRDs.And as much as I may believe WotC when they say they think they need to do this, I also think they need to give it up. That's not control they get to have. They can keep the DMsGuild where they police the products entirely, and they can do something like the d20 License if they want people to put a sticker on their product and not be racists (if you embarass them, they get to take away your sticker), but the OGL is not the correct mechanism for protecting WotC's brand.If they don't want to play by those rules anymore, 6e or 5.5e don't have to use the OGL, but "de-authorization" is the critical issue, and as long as WotC keeps that, I don't see them salvaging this situation.Just to say, "boilerplate" doesn't mean "good."Yeah, it's standard when we're talking about those lopsided one-way contracts websites have you sign to make a profile or whatever. The OGL is not a standard corporate contract, and "boilerplate" should not be assumed to be OK. It's the foundation to an entire industry. Putting language in there that gives WotC power over your products and your legal recourses means that serious businesses don't use it. Which makes it useless as the foundation for an industry.Boilerplate ain't gonna cut it here, and it's naive at best for WotC to think that it would.</blockquote>

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