Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License
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#2Some great news comes out of the WotC OGL controversy, with Paizo announcing a new open license and taking a strong legal stand against WotC.
They will be looking towards groups like the Linux Foundation to own the license once developed.
(Site has been overwhelmed with traffic, thus archive.org)
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#3Lots of other RPG publishers are joining in too so the license is definitely finding broad acceptance in the community. Curious to see WotC's next move.
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#4I’d like to hear from Monte Cook Games or White White as well.
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#5It's fine to include archive links in the thread, for example if a server is overwhelmed, but please post the original source as the top URL.
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We've changed the URL from https://web.archive.org/web/20230112230330/https://paizo.com... now.
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#6It's fine to include archive links in the thread, for example if a server is overwhelmed, but please post the original source as the top URL. " Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. " - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We've changed the URL from https://web.archive.org/web/20230112230330/https://paizo.com... now.
Thread merge request with the older but less popular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34361591
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#7This is exactly the sort of thing I hoped to see from Paizo once news of WotC's new license leaked. Good to see it!
Really curious to see if the new license will be closer at all to something like Creative Commons or FOSS software licenses than the OGL was, or if it'll stay relatively close. My suspicion is Paizo will still want to keep control over their story/setting/etc so it'll likely lean towards the OGL in that way.
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#8I’d like to hear from Monte Cook Games or White White as well.
monte cook will probably stick to their CSOL. but they are looking to update the language to make it say irrevocable possibly and they are taking their paid fantasy setting book for Cypher and merging it into the SRD, effectively making 90% open and free
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#9Re: Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License
#10> Ultimately, we plan to find a nonprofit with a history of open source values to own this license (such as the Linux Foundation).
I'm not sure if the Linux Foundation is just a relevant example here or an actual contender to be the steward.
I kind of hope it's the latter. TTRPG rules are close enough to code right? Structured instructions executed by humans with some flavor text at least.