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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 4584627" data-attributes="member: 40359">In the practical sense, WotC's intent is clear. They have removed the old d20 STL from the site completely so at the very least no new products can use it. And Scott Rouse has stated that they want publishers to stop using the logo and license. It's gone.So whether any announcements have been "official enough" doesn't matter a great deal, but it would take WotC 5 minutes to make it much more official (or just rely on the existing post and the fact that most publishers are regular posters/readers of EN World and claim that was notice).But on the academic side, it is an interesting issue. Reading the version I have saved (version 6, which I think was the latest), there aren't any provisions for revoking the license in it's entirety - just revoking for individual companies that breach. All WotC can do is "update" the license. In fact, it even states that you can continue distributing existing products with the logo even after the license is changed. So, its debatable whether or not any companies have to remove the logo at all for their existing products.However, businesses have to operate on the practical side of things, not the academic/theoretical. So, in that regard, it is smart for Green Ronin to update their products with a new logo. If had material out there, I certainly wouldn't destroy it all (unless it was costing me to keep that material around, such as physical products in a warehouse not selling and then it's a good excuse to clean house and blame WotC). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> It certainly is too shaky in my opinion to actual destroy product and/or pull items from RPGNow and such if you can still make money off of them. But updating them with a new logo and getting them onto Lulu is a smart move because it not only protects you from whatever WotC decides to do, and it generates some new interest and hopefully some sales without a great deal of effort. I know I might start looking at filling some gaps in my library through Lulu.</blockquote>

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