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Re:An Open Letter on the Open Gaming License, to Wizards of ... by Macha on Monday January 09, 2023 @07:28PM (#34318579)
If Paizo wholly owns the IP (PF1E: No, SF: Maybe, PF2E: Probably), then they can move to a competing license like CC-BY-SA. That would solve the "cannot distribute their own products" problem, but it would mean their entire ecosystem including third parties would need to propagate that change.

It also doesn't change the fact that Wizards could argue they have an OGL v1.0a+ license, and use OGL v1.1 to put pathfinder 1e srd on their new vtt without paying paizo for example

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Re:An Open Letter on the Open Gaming License, to Wizards of ... by the_af on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:35PM (#34320202)
Yes, now I understand. Thanks for this and your other explanation.

If I were Paizo I would sever Pathfinder entirely from the OGL, especially if they rewrote their game from scratch, and ask modules writers to switch to the new licensing. But what do I know?

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