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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8885503" data-attributes="member: 42582">As per my post not too far upthread, I think I agree that it is designed to cause confusion.My thought about its relationship to v 1.0/1.0a might be different from yours, though, and I'm interested to work out if that's so.A party to the OGL v 1.1 agrees, via the screenshot clause, that they are becoming a party to an updated version of the OGL. That suggests, therefore, that they also agree to allow v 1.1 to be used to distribute (etc) their OGC. They also agree that v 1.0/1.0a is no longer authorised by WotC, and hence renounce the right to distribute any OGC under that licence.A key question is, what is the status of OGC contributed by licensees who are not party to v 1.1. I don't think that they have agreed to have their content distributed by other parties under v 1.1, as those parties (it seems to me) are not conferring on v 1.0a licensees the rights those licensees are entitled to, including the right to choose which licence to use (because v 1.1 parties can't confer that right - at a minimum they have renounced their previous power to confer the right on others to use v 1.0/1.0a).So I'm not sure that WotC have failed to protect their own rights. Because anyone who enters into a new licence with them now, ie via 1.1, is passing through a one-way door (I think, as per the above). And those parties bring their own OGC with them, but cut off their membership of the 1.0/1.0a ecosystem. Or at least perhaps some of their OGC - because those parties cannot both enter the 1.1 ecosystem and honour obligations they might owe to parties to 1.0/1.0a, and so perhaps can't bring all of their OGC with them - only OGC that is licensed by another 1.1 party.Which to me seems to fracture the 3PP ecosystem in a much weirder fashion than I think the GSL did, or than your proposal would.</blockquote>

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