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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1585957" data-attributes="member: 158">As a matter of illustrating points, and these have been debated by quite a few actual copyright lawyers on these boards:1. The Open Gaming License as written cannot be rescinded, and users cannot be forced into a version they do not wish to use. (The specific clause is "9. Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated versions of this License. You may use any authorized version of this License to copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under any version of this License.")2. They CAN rescind the d20 System Trademark License, or can add so many unworkable restrictions that it is no longer profitable to use. So any book could simply drop the compatibility messages, and become a book of d20 rules; they just couldn't say d20 by name in the book or its press releases.WotC could indeed make a CLOSED 4th edition; on the positive side, the game community will have an ever-evolving set of rules that can split totally off of the parent, and never be quashed. In that instance, very little has changed from before 1999, it's just that there will be an actual license that material can be released under, WITHOUT fear of lawsuit.</blockquote>