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attempt to shift support away from the OGL and toward more open licenses, several alternatives to the OGL were suggested and drafted. Similarly, the popularity of the OGL inspired others to create their own, specific open content licenses. Virtually none of these gained acceptance beyond the works of the licenses' own authors, and many have since been abandoned.
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The OGL gained immediate popularity with commercial role-playing game publishers. However, the OGL was criticized (primarily by independent role-playing game developers) for being insufficiently "open", and for being controlled by the market leader Wizards of the Coast. In response to this, and in an
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role-playing game. Derivative works which were to be distributed for a fee required written permission from Fudge's author, Steffan O'Sullivan. The details of the Fudge Legal Notice were modified and expanded from time to time as O'Sullivan updated his work, but the essential elements of the license
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in January 2023, reported on the details from a leaked full copy of an update to the OGL including updated terms such as no longer authorizing use of the OGL1.0. Codega highlighted that "if the original license is in fact no longer viable, every single licensed publisher will be affected by the new
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The most common open gaming license in use by commercial role-playing game publishers is the OGL. There are many publishers currently producing material based on the first System Reference Document, and many which make their products available under the OGL but which use game systems not based on
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A number of fans and publishers have used existing open game content to create rules systems which closely emulate older editions of games that are no longer supported, and released those rules systems under an open license. The term "retro-clone" was coined by Goblinoid Games, the publisher of
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One reason why Fudge succeeded is that the author released it under the "FUDGE Legal Notice", a license that removed most restrictions on non-commercial use. However the FUDGE Legal Notice (more commonly known as simply "the Fudge license") was never intended to cover any work other than its
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remained unchanged. The 1993 FUDGE Legal Notice allowed reprinting of the Fudge rules, including in otherwise commercial works, as long as certain conditions were met. The 1995 FUDGE Legal Notice permitted the creation of derivative works for personal use and for publication in periodicals.
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The most common criticism of the OGF was that it was primarily a venue for publicizing Wizards of the Coast. Ryan Dancey was an employee of WotC, and discussion on the mailing lists tended to focus on d20 and the OGL (both owned by WotC) rather than on open gaming in general.
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The Open Gaming Foundation (OGF) was founded by Ryan Dancey as an independent forum for discussion of open gaming among the members of the fledgling open gaming movement. The OGF consisted of a web site and a series of mailing lists, including the
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The use of the term open gaming began with the publication of the original SRD and the simultaneous release of the Open Game License (OGL). However, role-playing games had been licensed under open and free content licenses before this.
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The Foundation explicitly stated that the first condition excludes licences that ban commercial use. The second requirement is intended to ensure that the rights granted by the licence are inalienable.
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role-playing system, the license of which permitted supplementary material to be written for its rules. Another "open" system was the Circe role-playing system, published by the
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with extensive help from the rec.games.design community. The name stood for "Freeform Universal Donated Game Engine" until Steffan O'Sullivan changed 'donated' to 'DIY' in 1995.
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Despite Fudge and other games, the open gaming movement did not gain widespread recognition within the role-playing game industry until 2000, when
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then Brand Manager for WotC, who drafted the Open Game License and first coined the term "open gaming" with respect to role-playing games.
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announced a new Open RPG Creative License (ORC) as a direct response to the reported changes to the OGL. Additional publishers, such as
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agreement. The main takeaway from the leaked OGL 1.1 draft document is that WotC is keeping power close at hand". Following this,
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A number of role-playing game publishers have joined the open gaming movement, largely as a result of the release of the original
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The license must ensure that material distributed using the license cannot have those permissions restricted in the future.
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The license must allow game rules and materials that use game rules to be freely copied, modified and distributed.
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3rd edition. Open gaming has also been popular among small press role-playing game and supplement authors.
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by OpenContent qualifies as long as neither of the License Options in Section VI of the license are used.
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The OGF maintained a definition of an "open game license" while it was active, with two criteria:
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acquired the copyright of Fudge, and on April 6, 2005, they released a version of Fudge under the
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announced two licenses, for its Year Zero game system and another for its upcoming fantasy RPG
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The following games are fully or partly under an Open Gaming Foundation-approved license or a
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The Open Gaming Foundation describes these licences as ‘Known Open Gaming Licenses’.
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movement. The key aspect is that copyright holders license their works under
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that permit others to make copies or create derivative works of the game.
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list (for general discussion of open gaming licensing issues) and the
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by Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment (OGL and CC-BY 3.0)
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The phrase "opensource roleplaying" was used as early as 1999 by the
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FOSsil Bank’s list of free culture tabletop games (mostly RPGs)
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under the Open Game License. This move was driven by
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