Official OGL Discussion Thread

[NichG]

The whole thing leading to conflating 'who owns the material being licensed' and 'who owns the concept of this license' (and by extension having this really artificial 'if person A is going to let person B use something they made, WotC is a concerned party because person A is using a license written first by WotC') is really a mess. Even some other license where some party tries to retain a sense of ownership over the license text itself seems vulnerable to conflicts of interest, especially when that owning company is a TTRPG company.

Like, if I were making something that I had sole ownership of, choosing to license that out as OGL or even ORC seems like just giving control to a third party who otherwise wouldn't be a stakeholder at all. It seems foolish to do that rather than, say, just entering the work into public domain or using one of the generic CC licenses.