Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8896112" data-attributes="member: 19857">Except the only thing that Wizards has said about this - which is the release they dropped today - is that it's all about publishing and not about VTTs at all anymore. Nor is it about royalties. Now it's about control.It's hilarious to me. The one thing that they actually could have done to quell everything is to say &quot;We're not retracting the 1.0a OGL, we're just not releasing new One D&amp;D material under anything but OGL 2.0&quot; and they could have kept the royalties and the VTT restrictions and likely most of the critics would have quieted down.&nbsp; That's actually done easily enough - they did it with 4e and their GSL, they could do it again.But instead they dropped all of those bits and are focusing on the single most destructive part of the proposal - they won't say categorically that they're not revoking the OGL 1.0a on existing SRDs.&nbsp; Until they say, categorically, that the 3e and 5e SRDs are under the OGL 1.0a terms and those terms are non-revokable they're leaving a loaded gun pointed at the industry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8896112, member: 19857"] Except the only thing that Wizards has said about this - which is the release they dropped today - is that it's all about publishing and not about VTTs at all anymore. Nor is it about royalties. Now it's about control. It's hilarious to me. The one thing that they actually could have done to quell everything is to say "We're not retracting the 1.0a OGL, we're just not releasing new One D&D material under anything but OGL 2.0" and they could have kept the royalties and the VTT restrictions and likely most of the critics would have quieted down. That's actually done easily enough - they did it with 4e and their GSL, they could do it again. But instead they dropped all of those bits and are focusing on the single most destructive part of the proposal - they won't say categorically that they're not revoking the OGL 1.0a on existing SRDs. Until they say, categorically, that the 3e and 5e SRDs are under the OGL 1.0a terms and those terms are non-revokable they're leaving a loaded gun pointed at the industry. [/QUOTE]

Verification