ORC License: The Final Version is Here!

Here is a direct link to the ORC License Seminar at Gen Con this year. I am not yet certain if the panel will be recorded on video, but we'd love to see you if you are at the show and have questions about the license!

Here is a direct link to the ORC License Seminar at Gen Con this year. I am not yet certain if the panel will be recorded on video, but we'd love to see you if you are at the show and have questions about the license!

Making a note for myself to check in with you about this when I'm at work, bc if Gen Con doesn't have plans to film, we can still figure something out!

Here is a direct link to the ORC License Seminar at Gen Con this year. I am not yet certain if the panel will be recorded on video, but we'd love to see you if you are at the show and have questions about the license!

I plan to be there, already got a ticket in the system. :)

Now can we get ORC t-shirts?

Erik Mona wrote:

Here is a direct link to the ORC License Seminar at Gen Con this year. I am not yet certain if the panel will be recorded on video, but we'd love to see you if you are at the show and have questions about the license!

Making a note for myself to check in with you about this when I'm at work, bc if Gen Con doesn't have plans to film, we can still figure something out!

Thank you. That was my first thought, would it be streamed, and preferably recorded, for those of us who can not be there.

Also, thank you to everyone who put in what must have been an enormous effort to make this happen so quickly.

Thank you again for creating this licence; I feel some relief that something like this exists now (and under independent control no less).

Hurray and well done getting this put together at last!

Fantastic news!
Thanks for getting all that together and you folks did a great job on listening to the community's feedback!

Thank you all for this revolution. You're building the future.

Fantastic news!

Thanks for getting all that together and you folks did a great job on listening to the community's feedback!

I feel that having so much playtest experience might have helped on this.

I wonder why is it still called a draft when it is the final version?

Congratulations! Hope this new page will be more secure and positive!

I wonder why is it still called a draft when it is the final version?

Probably because of that thing about updating the copyright registration number

Bravo!

This was a triumph!

I wonder why is it still called a draft when it is the final version?

It takes about 6 months to get a library of Congress id #.

Zaister wrote:

I wonder why is it still called a draft when it is the final version?

It takes about 6 months to get a library of Congress id #.

Ah, that makes sense.

the acronyms make my head hurt.
I'm fully expecting the hybrid amalgam License framework for using only part of the ORC license next.
Yes the HALF-ORC.

I wonder why is it still called a draft when it is the final version?

Because in writing (particularly when it comes to legal documents), "draft" means "version". Draft does not (necessarily) mean "first" or "rudimentary".

Zaister wrote:

I wonder why is it still called a draft when it is the final version?

Because in writing (particularly when it comes to legal documents), "draft" means "version". Draft does not (necessarily) mean "first" or "rudimentary".

I was surprised there was so many incorrect answers until you came along.

TomatoFettuccini wrote:

Zaister wrote:

I wonder why is it still called a draft when it is the final version?

Because in writing (particularly when it comes to legal documents), "draft" means "version". Draft does not (necessarily) mean "first" or "rudimentary".

I was surprised there was so many incorrect answers until you came along.

I must say that, in my line of work (not legal documents), we put DRAFT very visibly on documents that are NOT the final version (WiP if you like).

And we erase it only in the final version of the document.

the acronyms make my head hurt.

I'm fully expecting the hybrid amalgam License framework for using only part of the ORC license next.
Yes the HALF-ORC.

Ha.

I wonder if the documents themselves have any teeth!

I've got a little point of confusion.

Say I'm publishing a Derivative Work under I.c.(i), i.e. that it's for a single game system, and I'm securing the right to use material through this license, and therefore the entire product counts as a Derivative Work.

In Section I.a "Adapted Licensed Material," does "the limited extent" mean that ONLY THE PORTION OF that Derivative Work THAT meets the definition of Licensed Material under the second criterion (§I.e.(2)) is Adapted Licensed Material?

Or does it mean that the entire Derivative Work is Adapted Licensed Material —Adapted Licensed Material is a Derivative Work, a Derivative Work is the entire product in this case— AS LONG AS it would otherwise (in its entirety?) constitute Licensed Material under §I.e.(2)?

Basically, my confusion and concern boil down to: "Can portions of this type of Derivative Work be Reserved Material, or is that impossible?"

I found a typo in the final draft of the ORC AXE: On page 2, in new greenlined text, where it says "The ORC License was is required".

I don't know if the finality for the ORC License itself means you can't fix the ORC AXE.

Edit: Seems to be fixed in the non-redlined/greenlined version. (Whew.)

Assuming I'm upholding this license, there's no guessing that I can sell written fiction stories with ORC Licensed game stat blocks and trems in between paragraphs, right?

If so, it is finally finished in stone as an complete upgrade of the old OGL...

A plaintext version prominently hosted would be wonderful.

A plaintext version prominently hosted would be wonderful.

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