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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranger REG" data-source="post: 2504227" data-attributes="member: 533">Their fanbase will shrink, but not so much they will suffer from loss. And seeing how many companies are moving away from the "PHB requirement" label (i.e., going strictly OGL) -- some have already done so -- WotC will still be there because of all the RPGs in the market today, D&D is still #1.Sorry, but knowing there two faction inside WotC regarding the OGL/OGC debate, I'm not going to predict if 4e material will be added to the SRD. I'm not even going to predict if they will pull their royalty-free d20 System Trademark License offline.As for the OGL, it will stay forever. Even if WotC don't add new OGC, the current SRD is still good enough to improve upon by non-WotC publishers. After all, the OGL is nothing more than a content license.Of course this does beg a couple of legal questions: If there is a violation of the OGL and the violator does not comply with correcting it, and it happens to be your material you have contributed as OGC (or PI), is WotC allowed to be added as a plaintiff in the lawsuit since they are the author of the license? Can a Contributor sue the violator for breaching the license as well as infringing copyright (OGC is still copyrighted content)?The current OGL so far only stated that the consequence for someone violating the license is simply the terminating their use of the license. Should the new OGL address further consequence, in case WotC no longer wish to enforce it?</blockquote>

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