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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8882358" data-attributes="member: 14159">The fact they kept that FAQ up for over 20 years, and if they've taken it down it's only come down within the last few days, also goes a long way to saying that this interpretation that they can "de authorize" the OGL 1.0a is a very new one and that they spent 22 years saying that if they ever released a new OGL version then people could always use the older versions.Combine that with Ryan Dancey's statements as the exec at WotC who authorized the OGL to be released (and conceived of it in the first place) that he doesn't think the OGL can be rescinded and it was never meant to be rescinded also goes very far with regards to intent.I keep thinking this was the result of some WotC execs telling the legal dept. to come up with ANY excuse to rescind the OGL and they went with the first vaguely plausible thing anyone in the dept. came up with after most of the lawyers told them it couldn't be done.</blockquote>