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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7791039" data-attributes="member: 42582">Umbran, you've attributed a post to me that is not mine. Could youf ix that please?As far as the irrevocability of the OGL is concerned, that is a term of the licence granted by someone who takes up the offer and enters into a contract.It is not a property of the offer.You are correct that the D20 licence did not create a perpetual licence in the same way.You seem to be running together two things: the popular use of the phrase OGL to refer to WotC's standing offer to enter into licences; and the existence of a licence, having the terms of the OGL, between WotC and any other individual person/entity. Those latter licences are perpetual. The standing offer is not. And cannot be made so unless someone pays WotC to make it (thus making it a matter of contractual obligation to maintain the offer). No one has done that.As [USER=463]@S'mon[/USER] has explained upthread I think more clearly than my attempt to do the same, every person who has entered into a licence with WotC having the terms of the OGL is contractually obliged to maintain a standing offer to all the world to allow the OGC that they have published in accordance with the licence to be used by others. The difference between these other people/entites and WotC is that the former do have a contractual obligation to maintain the offer, which arises from their contract with WotC that has the terms of the OGL.</blockquote>

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