[ryukafalz]

This is exactly the sort of thing I hoped to see from Paizo once news of WotC's new license leaked. Good to see it!

Really curious to see if the new license will be closer at all to something like Creative Commons or FOSS software licenses than the OGL was, or if it'll stay relatively close. My suspicion is Paizo will still want to keep control over their story/setting/etc so it'll likely lean towards the OGL in that way.

[mcv]

The new license will probably be very similar to the OGL, except in being more explicit about its irrevocability, and not controlled by a single entity; once its written, Paizo will have no more control over this license than any other publisher.

But other than that, the content will be very similar. An open gaming license like this will always have to account for protected property rights. People will want to make Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Harry Potter games. That requires a clear separation between the shared mechanics and the protected property, and they have to be able to be published in a text where they are deeply integrated with each other.