[Raellus]

DISCLAIMER: I am neither an employee of GDW/FFE or FL, nor am I a copyright lawyer, and this post should not be interpreted as either legal advice or official corporate policy.


I have some recent experience as a T2k content creator to share that might shed light on the current arrangement. The following applies only to fan-created materials for sale, as copyright law comes into play for these commercial products.

Before the license transfer from Marc Miller to Mongoose, new 1-2.2e products had to be cleared by him. He personally vetted them. If Marc was dissatisfied with an element, he'd kick it back for edits until he was. Only then would he allow publication, and FFE took a cut of the profits.

4e was- and still is- a different beast, and new products could be published and sold through the Free League Workshop program. AFAIK, Free League doesn't do any pre-publication vetting whatsoever. Of course, FL also takes a cut of the profits from 4e products.

Presently, any 1-2.2e products for sale have to be cleared by Mongoose. Even products for 4e that use specific elements of 1-2.2e canonical products
(unit designations/locations, for example) need to clear those elements with Mongoose.

AFAIK, nothing has changed for how new fan-made 4e commercial products are published and sold.

So, not much has changed, really. It's just now any new commercial 1-2.2e products need to be cleared by Mongoose instead of GDW/FFE (Marc Miller).

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