It is illegal to post other people's homebrew without permission. You can recreate for your own personal use, but you cannot publish it or share it publically.
you sure its illegal?...like there's a law against someone posting my homebrew that i haven't gone out and copyrighted?
You don’t have to copy write it. If someone else created it and published it on the wiki (or anywhere else) that is enough to claim it as theirs. If you recreate it here for personal use without publishing it, that is absolutely okay. If you publish it here as your own homebrew, that is theft of intellectual property. If you make a homebrew but do not publish it, and then someone else publishes it first, then they own that unless you can prove they stole it in court.
This was about reposting something from dandwiki.com to DDB and publishing it on DDB. Which you cannot do legally, per the TOS: "You may not submit content to the Services that you did not create or that you do not have the right to submit."
As for the CC BY-SA license, you'll note that the licensing page says that it's referring to "Fandom communities (known as “wikis”)" (supported by your own quote above). It goes on to say "Some wikis use licenses other than the CC-BY-SA license. The license used by an individual wiki is made clear on the edit page of that wiki." DDB is clearly not a wiki, and has no edit page as such. It probably still falls under the general 'Fandom community' label, but there is definite wiggle room there. Possibly the OGL has language that overrides it, but again, the issue at hand was not about one's own original homebrew, but reposting someone else's homebrew.
This was about reposting something from dandwiki.com to DDB and publishing it on DDB. Which you cannot do legally, per the TOS: "You may not submit content to the Services that you did not create or that you do not have the right to submit."
As for the CC BY-SA license, you'll note that the licensing page says that it's referring to "Fandom communities (known as “wikis”)" (supported by your own quote above). It goes on to say "Some wikis use licenses other than the CC-BY-SA license. The license used by an individual wiki is made clear on the edit page of that wiki." DDB is clearly not a wiki, and has no edit page as such. It probably still falls under the general 'Fandom community' label, but there is definite wiggle room there. Possibly the OGL has language that overrides it, but again, the issue at hand was not about one's own original homebrew, but reposting someone else's homebrew.
all good points. i wonder if it says somewhere exactly which license they're assigning - can't seem to find it.
so i'll just go back to my OP reply: those are turtles, not tortoises - which is a common, but potentially fatal, mistake.
This was about reposting something from dandwiki.com to DDB and publishing it on DDB. Which you cannot do legally, per the TOS: "You may not submit content to the Services that you did not create or that you do not have the right to submit."
As for the CC BY-SA license, you'll note that the licensing page says that it's referring to "Fandom communities (known as “wikis”)" (supported by your own quote above). It goes on to say "Some wikis use licenses other than the CC-BY-SA license. The license used by an individual wiki is made clear on the edit page of that wiki." DDB is clearly not a wiki, and has no edit page as such. It probably still falls under the general 'Fandom community' label, but there is definite wiggle room there. Possibly the OGL has language that overrides it, but again, the issue at hand was not about one's own original homebrew, but reposting someone else's homebrew.
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all good points. i wonder if it says somewhere exactly which license they're assigning - can't seem to find it.
so i'll just go back to my OP reply: those are turtles, not tortoises - which is a common, but potentially fatal, mistake.
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