kyonshi <
gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote in
news:tr0ejh$1m09t$
1@dont-email.me:
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/hasbro-cut-1000- global-full-time-jobs-2023-2023-01-26/
Well, I won't copy the whole article this time because it's
largely not connected with DnD, but one interesting point in it
is this: Wizards of the Coast right now is one of the few parts
of Hasbro that is growing. Well, before the whole OGL kerfuffle
and their mishandling of Magic it was at least.
I'm guessing someone at Hasbro corporate took a close look at the
controversy over WotC. There are reports of two high level execs
leaving (but not Cynthia Williams, the CEO, at least not yet), and
they have . . .
wait for it . . .
completely caved on the OGL updates.
The feedback is in such high volume and its direction is so plain
that we're acting now.
1. We are leaving OGL 1.0a in place, as is. Untouched.
2. We are also making the entire SRD 5.1 available under a Creative
Commons license.
3. You choose which you prefer to use.
"This Creative Commons license makes the content freely available
for any use. We don't control that license and cannot alter or
revoke it. It's open and irrevocable in a way that doesn't require
you to take our word for it. And its openness means there's no need
for a VTT policy. Placing the SRD under a Creative Commons license
is a one-way door. There's no going back."
In other words, "Please stop hurting us. Our bosses don't like it."
https://tinyurl.com/2p98cm6z
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons? utm_campaign=DDB&utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_content=
8757369729
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