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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8909724" data-attributes="member: 19857">Sure - here's one from the ogl faq:Q: Can't Wizards of the Coast change the License in a way that I wouldn't like?A: Yes, it could. However, the License already defines what will happen to content that has been previously distributed using an earlier version, in Section 9. As a result, even if Wizards made a change you disagreed with, you could continue to use an earlier, acceptable version at your option. In other words, there's no reason for Wizards to ever make a change that the community of people using the Open Gaming License would object to, because the community would just ignore the change anyway.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://web.archive.org/web/20080514020843/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/oglfaq/20040123f[/URL]Now I admit I'm not a lawyer. But as far as deciding whether a company is being deceptive or not, this is what they said when they wanted us to buy into the License- that even if Wizards wanted to change the license we could keep using the old one so it wouldn’t matter.If you object to the term lie on some technical definition then fine. We'll agree to disagree. But they absolutely cannot be trusted to keep their word anymore about anything. Which to me makes them liars.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8909724, member: 19857"] Sure - here's one from the ogl faq: [B]Q: Can't Wizards of the Coast change the License in a way that I wouldn't like?[/B] A: Yes, it could. However, the License already defines what will happen to content that has been previously distributed using an earlier version, in Section 9. [I]As a result, even if Wizards made a change you disagreed with, you could continue to use an earlier, acceptable version at your option. In other words, there's no reason for Wizards to ever make a change that the community of people using the Open Gaming License would object to, because the community would just ignore the change anyway.[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://web.archive.org/web/20080514020843/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/oglfaq/20040123f[/URL] Now I admit I'm not a lawyer. But as far as deciding whether a company is being deceptive or not, this is what they said when they wanted us to buy into the License- that even if Wizards wanted to change the license we could keep using the old one so it wouldn’t matter. If you object to the term lie on some technical definition then fine. We'll agree to disagree. But they absolutely cannot be trusted to keep their word anymore about anything. Which to me makes them liars. [/QUOTE]

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