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Originally Posted by lurkinglidda Upon entering into agreement with WotC on the d20 STL, by providing a signed confirmation card, entities agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of the license, including the destruction of product upon termination of the license. This is legally binding, so the answer to your question is yes, WotC does have the right.
This is clearly stated in section 6 of the d20 STL v 6.0.
For more information, please view the license here: http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/d20stlv6.rtf |
Respectfully, I don't think that's what the license says. I'm not a lawyer, but reading the license text, the only apparent provision for termination of the license is through the breach of the license by the licensee, not due to Wizards revoking the license.
Now, of course Wizards could always revise the license to include terms that would revoke the license on a certain date and require destruction of material after a defined period, but its not in this current version of the license. Such after-the-fact revisions of the license may not be enforceable (depending on the jurisdiction).
More importantly, such bad-faith behaviour on the part of Wizards would make potential licensees of the
GSL less likely to agree to it, if the
GSL contains similar terms to the STL.
To work well licences such as the
GSL and STL require a high degree of trust between the parties; Wizards needs to be careful not to lose the trust of third-party publishers during the transition between licenses.