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<blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8900888" data-attributes="member: 6777331"><p>The "if need be" is the important bit of "<strong>we are prepared to argue that point in a court of law</strong> if need be"</p><p></p><p>Which I read as they are prepared to argue <em>if</em> WotC take them to court over it. WotC are not technically in breach of contract with them unless they attempt to stop them publishing somehow (through more direct methods than simply saying the license is no longer authorized), so they would have nothing to take WotC to court over.</p><p></p><p>As they've stated they will not actually be publishing anything under the OGL anyway, there's pretty much a 0% chance of that argument ever coming to court anyway. If anything, WotC will take them to court over copyright violation, the deauthorization of the OGL will not factor into it as they're no longer doing anything with it to sue them over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt Thomason, post: 8900888, member: 6777331"] The "if need be" is the important bit of "[B]we are prepared to argue that point in a court of law[/B] if need be" Which I read as they are prepared to argue [I]if[/I] WotC take them to court over it. WotC are not technically in breach of contract with them unless they attempt to stop them publishing somehow (through more direct methods than simply saying the license is no longer authorized), so they would have nothing to take WotC to court over. As they've stated they will not actually be publishing anything under the OGL anyway, there's pretty much a 0% chance of that argument ever coming to court anyway. If anything, WotC will take them to court over copyright violation, the deauthorization of the OGL will not factor into it as they're no longer doing anything with it to sue them over. [/QUOTE]
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