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Pedantic Grognard
Anyway.
We still don't know exactly what's happening here, we've got partial reports based on leaks, plus various statements from lawyers.
However, if we assume that WotC/Hasbro really and truly intends to try to revoke the OGL 1.0a with regard to already-released material in the case of people who have not agreed to the OGL 1.1, there is one obvious "So how do we respond?"
We respond by contacting organizations in the Open Source and Free Software movements to pass legislation to eliminate this supposed right to revoke. The GPL 2, the BSD license, the MIT license, the Mozilla Public License . . . all would be revocable under this theory. That's a huge deal, if you know how much of the modern world is built on software released under those licenses.
And while court precedent, according to some lawyers, currently supports revocation, the law governing contracts and licenses can be amended by legislation.
We still don't know exactly what's happening here, we've got partial reports based on leaks, plus various statements from lawyers.
However, if we assume that WotC/Hasbro really and truly intends to try to revoke the OGL 1.0a with regard to already-released material in the case of people who have not agreed to the OGL 1.1, there is one obvious "So how do we respond?"
We respond by contacting organizations in the Open Source and Free Software movements to pass legislation to eliminate this supposed right to revoke. The GPL 2, the BSD license, the MIT license, the Mozilla Public License . . . all would be revocable under this theory. That's a huge deal, if you know how much of the modern world is built on software released under those licenses.
And while court precedent, according to some lawyers, currently supports revocation, the law governing contracts and licenses can be amended by legislation.