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[Roll of Law] The ORC License: Worse than the OGL

3 years ago by Hexed Press to c/osr

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So, Paizo has released the ORC, and a lot of people have had high hopes for it because Wizards/Hasbro have behaved so badly. But, just because Wizards is aw...

I saw this posted on Mastodon. It’s an interesting listen. If you were thinking about using the ORC license, it may give you pause.

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AwkwardTurtle 6 points 3 years ago

I will strongly recommend people interested in open licenses look to the existing, more mature licenses, Creative Commons in particular.

The "unresolvable problems" that Paizo ran into with CC are actually very resolvable. If you don't want a sticky, viral license, use CC-BY. If you do want a sticky license, but not for your whole game, split out a separate SRD and put that under CC-BY-SA.

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yochaigal 5 points 3 years ago

Yes. We have a license to replace the OGL. It works. There is still no viable argument to use ORC over OGL other than to remain in complained with specific existing 3rd party licenses.

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