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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9434398" data-attributes="member: 2525">YesFor FUTURE users, but I was responding to a claim WOTC should &quot;do something&quot; to return everything to the status quo which exited prior to what WOTC did about the OGL. Which is impossible, because you cannot change which license was used for past uses of the OGL, and you can't amend the existing OGL to retroactively apply to past uses of the OGL, so you can never return everything back to the status quo before all this.The only thing WOTC could have really done about past uses of the OGL is the very thing they did do: outright state that despite their initial desire to cancel the OGL, they changed their mind and won't do that and will never do that. You either believe them, or not. And I think it's fair to be suspicious or simply not believe them, but them saying it is about the only thing they could have done to protect prior uses. Sure, they could do something about future uses, and they did with the Creative Commons, and then the ORC license is an alternative out there. But there isn't anything WOTC could have done to really protect past uses given the old OGL outright stated it cannot be amended.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 9434398, member: 2525"] Yes For FUTURE users, but I was responding to a claim WOTC should "do something" to return everything to the status quo which exited prior to what WOTC did about the OGL. Which is impossible, because you cannot change which license was used for past uses of the OGL, and you can't amend the existing OGL to retroactively apply to past uses of the OGL, so you can never return everything back to the status quo before all this. The only thing WOTC could have really done about past uses of the OGL is the very thing they did do: outright state that despite their initial desire to cancel the OGL, they changed their mind and won't do that and will never do that. You either believe them, or not. And I think it's fair to be suspicious or simply not believe them, but them saying it is about the only thing they could have done to protect prior uses. Sure, they could do something about future uses, and they did with the Creative Commons, and then the ORC license is an alternative out there. But there isn't anything WOTC could have done to really protect past uses given the old OGL outright stated it cannot be amended. [/QUOTE]

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