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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4362418" data-attributes="member: 52839">ANNND one MORE time:"6.1 OGL Product Conversion. If Licensee has entered into the “Open Gaming License version 1.0” with Wizards (“OGL”), and Licensee has previously published a product under the OGL (each an “OGL Product”), Licensee may publish a Licensed Product subject to this License that features the same or similar title, product line trademark, or contents as such OGL Product (each such OGL Product, a “Converted OGL Product”, and each such Licensed Product, a “Conversion”). Upon the first publication date of a Conversion, Licensee will cease all manufacturing and publication of the corresponding Converted OGL Product and all other OGL Products which are part of the same product line as the Converted OGL Product, as reasonably determined by Wizards (“Converted OGL Product Line”). Licensee explicitly agrees that it will not thereafter manufacture or publish any portion of the Converted OGL Product Line, or any products that would be considered part of a Converted OGL Product Line (as reasonably determined by Wizards) pursuant to the OGL. Licensee may continue to distribute and sell-off all remaining physical inventory of a Converted OGL Product Line after the corresponding Conversion is published, but will, as of such date, cease all publication, distribution and sale (and ensure that third party affiliates of Licensee cease their publication, distribution and sale) of any element of a Converted OGL Product Line in any electronic downloadable format. For the avoidance of doubt, (a) any OGL Product that is not part of a Converted OGL Product Line may continue to be manufactured, published, sold and distributed pursuant to the OGL; and (b) this Section 6.1 will survive termination of this Agreement."Under section 1, "Effective Date," it says: "Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise provided in this License no Licensed Product (as defined below) will have a first on-sale date prior to October 1, 2008."That line clearly states that there is at least one point in this license that changes the October date. And that line is the one I highlighted in red.Now I tried to apply the phrase that I bolded in 6.1 to Wizards determining what part of the previous OGL gets discontinued, but it just doesn't make sense. You either discontinue it or you don't. Therefore, this may be interpreted as saying that the timeframe decided must be passed by WOTC, especially since it's all a part of the same line. So the only stipulation would be WOTC's approval. Also, typically, an important date such as the October 1st date would be clearly redefined at this point in any normal contract if it wasn't changed, further highlighting the ambiguity. Also note, that the section I highlighted in red was AFTER the "subject to this license" line and is itself a part of this license. So therefore bolding "subject to this license" is simply circular, as what I highlighted IS part of the license and they are therefore subject to it. And the bolded part of section 1 clearly shows that the date can be changed by said license.</blockquote>

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