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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rcade" data-source="post: 8903627" data-attributes="member: 59231">Under that logic, if a publisher of original content thinks a reuser is violating the OGL, it would have to convince Hasbro to take action instead of being able to take action on its own. That's not how open licenses work. Lawsuits filed over violations of the GPL are between the originator and reuser. The Free Software Foundation is not required to get involved.The only times Hasbro/WOTC has ever acted to enforce the OGL was on reusers of its SRD, such as when Fast Forward Entertainment agreed in 2003 to pulp four of its products because they reused elements of D&D that had not been shared in the SRD.If the OGL had been an agreement that gave Hasbro/WOTC total control over what constituted a license infringement, third-party publishers would not have adopted the license. Nobody was going to give Hasbro that kind of power after what TSR had done over the years to publishers and hobbyists creating material compatible with D&D.</blockquote>