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<blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 8894976" data-attributes="member: 7030100">One thing just occurred to me regarding this, though: WotC actually does own the copyright on the text of the OGL1.0. That means if someone publishes &quot;Genocide: The RPG&quot; under OGL1.0, a reader can look in the back of that book and can find a bit of text that reads: In other words, anything using OGL1.0 has that mandatory association with WotC, in print. I mean, people like us know that WotC had nothing to do with that publication, but a casual reader wouldn't know that. So I can sort of understand why WotC wouldn't want that out there.The OGL should have been controlled by a truly neutral and truly open interest from the beginning. Unfortunately, it wasn't, and now creators have to somehow extract their own works from WotC's corporate reflex to control &quot;their&quot; IP, while WotC has to deal with potentially negative associations with distasteful material.I really wish there was a way to just strip out WotC's name from the OGL1.0, tack on the word &quot;irrevocable&quot;, and carry on. Oh well, that water went under the bridge 20+ years ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J.Quondam, post: 8894976, member: 7030100"] One thing just occurred to me regarding this, though: WotC actually does own the copyright on the text of the OGL1.0. That means if someone publishes "Genocide: The RPG" under OGL1.0, a reader can look in the back of that book and can find a bit of text that reads: In other words, [I]anything using OGL1.0 has that mandatory association with WotC[/I], in print. I mean, people like us know that WotC had nothing to do with that publication, but a casual reader wouldn't know that. So I can sort of understand why WotC wouldn't want that out there. The OGL should have been controlled by a truly neutral and truly open interest from the beginning. Unfortunately, it wasn't, and now creators have to somehow extract their own works from WotC's corporate reflex to control "their" IP, while WotC has to deal with potentially negative associations with distasteful material. I really wish there was a way to just strip out WotC's name from the OGL1.0, tack on the word "irrevocable", and carry on. Oh well, [I]that[/I] water went under the bridge 20+ years ago. [/QUOTE]

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