Perhaps most importantly, Creative Commons licenses cannot be revoked, so any material using SRD 5.2 won't have to worry about another rug pull like the planned 2023 changes to the open-game license.

Releasing this new SRD, version 5.2, under the Creative Commons—specifically the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0)—means it can't be taken back.

However, after mass reprisals from members of the community, Wizards agreed to release the SRD 5.1 under a Creative Commons license, ensuring that the SRD could be used by creators in perpetuity.

There are some who would say that Creative Commons is a farce - a means for bedroom producers who aren't likely to make any money in the first place to feel like they have some sort of copyright ...

This wasn't a sure thing: the demo I played back in February was still using the 2014 rules, and the updated Systems Reference Document explaining what rules are in the creative commons didn't ...