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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8908636" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I don't know what <em>trying</em> would look like here.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what it means for WotC to operate in good faith in relation to X's contract with Y to which WotC is not a party, and which does not implicate WotC's copyrighted works.</p><p></p><p>If WotC try to insist on asserting their copyright in the text of the OGL that gets a bit trickier. For the reasons I (and some others) have posted seems like a weak claim, and to me not one they would bother making. But even if they did, it wouldn't bring any contracts to an end. So what would then be needed would be a mechanism within that ecosystem for parties to mutually vary the terms of their licence so as to no longer require one another to reproduce the text of the OGL.</p><p></p><p>Yes. I think that's clear. OGL v 1.2 section 5(b) expressly says as much.</p><p></p><p>It's some sort of blending of content - eg you want to publish a D&D sub-class that uses a PF2 ability - that becomes tricky. Because in this case it's not clear that you can honour your OGL v 1.0a obligations to Paizo, in respect of that content (which would be OGC in the terms of your licence with Paizo) without breaching your OGL v 1.2 obligations to WotC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8908636, member: 42582"] I don't know what [i]trying[/i] would look like here. I don't know what it means for WotC to operate in good faith in relation to X's contract with Y to which WotC is not a party, and which does not implicate WotC's copyrighted works. If WotC try to insist on asserting their copyright in the text of the OGL that gets a bit trickier. For the reasons I (and some others) have posted seems like a weak claim, and to me not one they would bother making. But even if they did, it wouldn't bring any contracts to an end. So what would then be needed would be a mechanism within that ecosystem for parties to mutually vary the terms of their licence so as to no longer require one another to reproduce the text of the OGL. Yes. I think that's clear. OGL v 1.2 section 5(b) expressly says as much. It's some sort of blending of content - eg you want to publish a D&D sub-class that uses a PF2 ability - that becomes tricky. Because in this case it's not clear that you can honour your OGL v 1.0a obligations to Paizo, in respect of that content (which would be OGC in the terms of your licence with Paizo) without breaching your OGL v 1.2 obligations to WotC. [/QUOTE]
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