"All future versions of the SRD will be released exclusively under Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) for consistency and broader compatibility."
I don't know if this is intended to break the back of legacy products that use the OGL. I don't know if they have considered this will pipe a lot of D&D-isms straight into ORC licensed products. I'm not sure the D&D team and the suits are entirely on the same page, but it looks like some inertia is in play. #rpg #ogl #dnd #opengaming
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1949-coming-april-22-publish-your-own-creations-using
@pawsplay it's just the best license.
It's more open, doesn't harm downstream creators like ORC, and has legal tests that include much larger businesses than Hasbro
@bedirthan ORC doesn't harm downstream creators.
@bedirthan It is more open, which is to say, more customizable. The downside being of course that you have to figure out your own declarations, if you aren't publishing a separate SRD or just opening the whole product up hippie-style. Any of those three ways is a valid approach depending on your goals. The ORC is just pre-configured; narrow, but serviceable and friendly.
@pawsplay I can mix CC versions pretty easily. Almost every website does so when they use images in the CC 0
@bedirthan That is an upside for CC. Anything can be mixed into ORC but it's a one-way trip, so the CC material remains licensed in parallel anyway.
@bedirthan For me, I intend to license almost everything in CC and ORC both. It doesn't require much extra effort from me, and I want to feed both ecosystems.