Enter Creative Commons
In an announcement on Thursday, January 19, Wizards of the Coast released its plan for establishing a new version of the OGL, called the OGL 1.2. It has revealed the current proposed text for the OGL 1.2 and stated that there will be two weeks where it will solicit feedback from the community. While the new OGL 1.2 addresses a lot of concerns the community had when the OGL 1.1 was reported on, there are still a lot of hang-ups for concerned fans. Royalty tiers and reporting have been removed, but the OGL 1.0a will still be de-authorized; a major pressure point for creators and fans.
However, D&D will be putting core rules under the auspices of a CC-BY-4.0 license and putting the contents of various System Reference Documents under the OGL 1.2. While there are still a lot of questions, and people are right to be concerned after being so badly burned by D&D over the past two weeks, this is a massive step forward, and is hugely improved over the draft OGL 1.1.
