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That is incorrect, it is meant to be a general purpose open content license controlled by a non-profit similar to how open source licenses are traditionally administered. It is drawing further lessons from the open source experience to tighten up the language and administration of the license...

My Response to the January 13th 2023 statement by Wizards NUTS! - With all due respect to General Anthony McAuliffe of the 101st Airborne A link to the Wizard's statement The relevant section Says nothing about being able to continue to use the OGL 1.0a license, Or whether we can make new...

A Network of One Over on the Roll for Combat channel they had an excellent interview with Ryan Dancey. I recommend jumping to around the 18:00 minute mark where Ryan says this The value of the OSR is in the fact that the classic editions we focus on are but a hop and a skip from each other. So...

I found the email archives of one of the two open gaming foundation mailing lists. https://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@mail.opengamingfoundation.org/info.html

I have to ask why? What did it hinge on?

Hey! You are name level! ;)

I thought that the OGL was a license not a contract as well and then I read the appeals ruling in Jacobsen v. Katzer. This to me means a license like the OGL should be considered a contract as it fulfills all the elements of contracts including economic consideration. And that the rules...

More fuel for the fire. As a technical note, the reason this can be even attempted is that if you omit all the newer mechanics from the d20 SRD what is left is but a hop and skip from a specific classic edition. But to clear their additional work and care to be done to get it close to a...

So what is the point of having an explicit termination clause if the legal landscape insists on drawing in all these implicit understandings that can only be removed by magic words introduced years later? I apologize for not presenting a reasoned fact-based argument here. But at some point...

To stress, I think it would be great if an OGL 1.0b was added irrevocable. Also if GPL v2 was ruled on and held irrevocable then by the same logic the OGL which took it as one it's models will also be ruled irrevocable. Also I think would help folks if you cited the case where that occurred...

The Open Source world long been divided into camps about how far to go. EFF is firmly in "all thing should be open" camp. By their reasoning that mean Linus Torvalds could withdraw authorization for his license grants for Linux because it uses GPL v2 which doesn't have irrevocable in it as well...

The EFF has weighed in. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/beware-gifts-dragons-how-dds-open-gaming-license-may-have-become-trap-creators

Here is a link to the text of the license everybody talking about. It is badly formatted because the originals apparently can be traced back to individual NDAs. So this is basically a cut and paste job. http://ogl.battlezoo.com/

Except it wasn't Wizards who transferred me the rights but rather Matt. I get that it is their copyrighted material. Matt had perpetual permission to use and sublicense that content. Wizard revokes the OGL 1.0a for their content and terminates the license. That means Section 13 comes into play...

Then just like I asked about irrevocable, if a license has a termination clause like the one in the OGL, what are the key common law cases that decided that a licensor can terminate a license arbitrarily by means other than the termination clause.

Except there are sublicenses involved. For example, I used a fair amount of content from Matt Finich's Swords & Wizardry in my Majestic Fantasy RPG. At no time I used any material directly from the d20 SRD. But Matt did. Then there is the fact that the license has an explicit termination...

Then cite the key cases from a common law country that state that there are other ways of terminating a license other than via the explicit termination clause. The nuances are important. Laypeople and lawyers were saying that you needed irrevocable to make a perpetual license stick. But when it...

Again thanks. And one more thing about the case you found, of course it has to be about f****ng software. I love doing my job and software development but holy cow all the IP issues we cause.

Thanks and again appreciate you digging this up. Another question, do you think there is a distinction between deauthorization and termination? Or as in some cases, they are just two ways of saying the same thing. In this case, the license has been terminated? If so wouldn't the explicit...

And what supplies that context if it is something else other than what the terms of the license says. So in software, when creating something that is called a subclass, it means that certain features and functionality are inherited from a parent class. As far as contracts goes, if I include an...