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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 2644211" data-attributes="member: 939">As of now, there is no such letter from wizards.  And I hardly think complaints on a message board would be a suitable substitute.  At best, he's on notice to investigate the ambiguity, assuming he is still reading this thread.  But like I said, give me a MOTIVE - what is the benefit to having the extra test on the legal page.  Near as I can see, there is NONE.  The only plausible reason for having that text there is out of a belief that it is required by the license.  Give me another reason - I bet you can't think of a reasonable one.  Yes, the bigger the fish he is, the more he has to lose and the more likely he'll get his own lawyer to deal with this.  From what I've seen, odds are that those who preach caution here do so not out of any knowledge that the OGL is potentially violated by certain behavior, but instead out of a desire not to rock the boat.  And don't forget that Wizards has a stake here as well - they obviously saw monetary value in having 3rd parties create supplements / adventures / etc.  If they go around suing everyong over minor things, this will have a chilling effect on those potential publishers, and they may just decide it is easiest just to stop publishing at all, thus destroying that business benefit to wizards.  Which brings up another point - sometimes it pays NOT to sue, even when you do have a viable cause of action, in the interests of fostering good business relationships.  What we are talking about here is the legal page printing the license text from wizards - I'm pretty sure the few extra lines of text listing their rights wasn't their main concern when they came up with the OGL.</blockquote>

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