GreyLord
Legend
So, this may have been asked before, but perhaps some of you legal wizards might be able to answer this yourselves.
My memory is not as great as it used to be.
I seem to recall that there was a 1.0 OGL that came out with 3e or around the time for 3e?
Isn't that the original OGL, even if it can no longer be found online (almost all of my books have their stuff based on OGL 1.0a making it almost impossible to find one based on 1.0. They DO refer to a 1.0 in section 15 of the OGLa that they put down under copyright notice. It seems hard to find, BUT the Mutants and Masterminds core rulebook I have does NOT refer to the 1.0a and only the Open Game License. It looks like it may actually only be based upon the 1.0 license, which, if true, gives us the text of the 1.0 license).
Now, as per section 9, one can use ANY AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THIS LICENSE TO COPY, MODIFY, AND DISTRIBUTE ANY OPEN GAME CONTENT ORIGINALLY DISTRIBUTED UNDER ANY VERSION OF THIS LICENSE.
With that in mind, from what I understand, the new OGL is ONLY deauthorizing 1.0a, at least that's the chatter I've heard.
IF IT ONLY deauthorizes 1.0a does that mean that it does NOT deauthorize 1.0?
If it does not deauthorize 1.0 would that indicate that, as per section 9, anyone using 1.0a could revert to using 1.0 and continue to release their information as 1.0a is the one deauthorized, not 1.0?
My memory is not as great as it used to be.
I seem to recall that there was a 1.0 OGL that came out with 3e or around the time for 3e?
Isn't that the original OGL, even if it can no longer be found online (almost all of my books have their stuff based on OGL 1.0a making it almost impossible to find one based on 1.0. They DO refer to a 1.0 in section 15 of the OGLa that they put down under copyright notice. It seems hard to find, BUT the Mutants and Masterminds core rulebook I have does NOT refer to the 1.0a and only the Open Game License. It looks like it may actually only be based upon the 1.0 license, which, if true, gives us the text of the 1.0 license).
Now, as per section 9, one can use ANY AUTHORIZED VERSION OF THIS LICENSE TO COPY, MODIFY, AND DISTRIBUTE ANY OPEN GAME CONTENT ORIGINALLY DISTRIBUTED UNDER ANY VERSION OF THIS LICENSE.
With that in mind, from what I understand, the new OGL is ONLY deauthorizing 1.0a, at least that's the chatter I've heard.
IF IT ONLY deauthorizes 1.0a does that mean that it does NOT deauthorize 1.0?
If it does not deauthorize 1.0 would that indicate that, as per section 9, anyone using 1.0a could revert to using 1.0 and continue to release their information as 1.0a is the one deauthorized, not 1.0?