Official OGL Discussion Thread

[ToranIronfinder]

I do want them to define it. But up front, in clear terms they can be held to. Not as an amorphous "things we don't like" clause.

Yep. Particularly when done publically.

Kane

What is considered hateful or offensive is much like what is considered politically correct, its not universally understood and is subject to change over time. Leaving that open to interpretation is going to lead to problems even before you account for a single entity determining it.

That is the nature of debates outside of the board, but I would suggest this is the general problem of the day, different worldviews exist within the same society. But in any kind of license or contract, the terms need to be concrete rather than fuzzy. If they said no intentional disparagement of real world living groups, fine but if someone misunderstands your literary sources for something and applies it to a living group, now we have a problem, because under these types of areas where the readers response is more important than the creator's intentions, we have crossed several perilous straits, since one can never anticipate how someone will eisegete something into your work at some point in the future.