If the #DnDBegone survey doesn't allow direct feedback on these six issues, it will be virtually impossible to believe that the surveys are anything but a PR stunt.
To review:
- De-authorizing OGL v1.0a
- WotC having a unilateral and uncontestable power to revoke your use of the license
- No mechanism for sharing open content
- Print or PDF products only / VTT restrictions
- WotC's ability to change terms of the license
- Severability
To these pre-OGL v1.2 problems, I would personally add:
- Redefining the word "irrevocable"
- What material is being placed under the Creative Commons
- What legal mechanism "allows" Hasbro to de-authorize the OGL v1.0a while asserting that you still have the right to use the OGL v1.0a to distribute other people's copyrighted material
Attempting to de-authorize the OGL is simply unacceptable. I will not purchase anything from Hasbro if you persist in this extra-legal act of cultural vandalism.
New License is Revocable: The license says "irrevocable," but WotC has a unilateral and uncontested ability to prohibit you from distributing anything you release using the license.
WotC Gets Final Approval: They are doing this.
No Mechanism for Sharing Open Content: This still true. The license ONLY grants permission to use WotC's "Licensed Content" and cannot be used to create a community of open content.
Print or PDF Products Only: Mostly still true, although they're allowing static text in VTTs.
The OGL 1.2 (Draft) is still de-authorizing the OGL 1.0a and gives no mechanism for anyone who used other people's OGC under the license to keep their work in print.
During the Watergate investigation, Washington Post reporters Bernstein & Woodward made a mistake: Rushing for deadline, they thought they had confirmation from a source that a story was true.
They did not.
It was not.
You can see it dramatized in All the President's Men.
Woodward discusses it here.
It was a small mistake, but it was concrete and, unlike everything else demonstrating the mass-criminality of Nixon, could be proven wrong.
It gave the Nixon White House something tangible to push back on and they did. Hard.