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<blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8899557" data-attributes="member: 6777331">This is similar to one of my first thoughts on the ORC announcement, but by having publishers do blanket &quot;Everything we ever produced under the OGL, you also have our permission to redistribute under ORC&quot; announcements.&nbsp; Its just the very, very complicated (and risky) task of filing off the serial numbers for the underlying SRD that would get in the way. That task becomes even more complicated and risky if you don't have the permission of the publisher in question and also have to file their serial numbers off.&nbsp; And somewhat risky for anyone down the line who decides to use that version because they need to be confident the converter did the job thoroughly enough to avoid copyright infringement.I don't want to be a downer on this, because I'm also unhappy that moving to the ORC license means saying goodbye to a lot of OGL OGC we will no longer have the rights to use, and truly love the idea we might be able to do something about that.&nbsp; Just trying to be realistic about the amount of work involved and the real risks attached to both doing it and reusing it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Matt Thomason, post: 8899557, member: 6777331"] This is similar to one of my first thoughts on the ORC announcement, but by having publishers do blanket "Everything we ever produced under the OGL, you also have our permission to redistribute under ORC" announcements. Its just the very, very complicated (and risky) task of filing off the serial numbers for the underlying SRD that would get in the way. That task becomes even more complicated and risky if you don't have the permission of the publisher in question and also have to file [I]their[/I] serial numbers off. And somewhat risky for anyone down the line who decides to use that version because they need to be confident the converter did the job thoroughly enough to avoid copyright infringement. I don't want to be a downer on this, because I'm also unhappy that moving to the ORC license means saying goodbye to a lot of OGL OGC we will no longer have the rights to use, and truly love the idea we might be able to do something about that. Just trying to be realistic about the amount of work involved and the real risks attached to both doing it and reusing it. [/QUOTE]

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