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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8896853" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Frankly, the most hilarious thing about their recent non-pology response is that, by their own admission, it paints WotC in an extremely, incredibly unflattering light. And it does so for one very simple, specific reason."It also will not include the license back provision that some people were afraid was a means for us to steal work. That thought never crossed our minds." (Emphasis added.)This was very clearly the actual legal effect of the statements contained in the license--that WotC could republish literally any content licensed under their proposed "O"GL 1.1 without needing to give payment or get permission. Since this was so obviously the effect of the license as written, the claim that "that thought never crossed [their] minds" implies one of two things. Either they (and their legal counsel) were so incompetent that they could not perceive that this was a consequence of the language they were using, and thus should not be trusted to write such an important document...or they're straight-up lying to us about what their intent was, and thus they should not be trusted to write such an important document.Like, I don't think I've ever seen a corporation so blatantly skewer themselves on their own "stupid or evil" dilemma before, but there you have it. Either they were too shortsighted to see how horrible this proviso was, or they totally did see it and they're straight-up lying about not seeing it. That's just...I guess admitting stupidity is better than admitting ill intent, but not by much!</blockquote>

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