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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8884313" data-attributes="member: 14159">Except they can revoke OGL 1.1 at will, explicitly.A license that can be revoked at will is meaningless, it's as worthless as their &quot;Fan Content Policy&quot;.The OGL isn't supposed to be able to be revoked, that was a substantial part of its appeal, that the nuts &amp; bolts of D&amp;D were out there &quot;in the open&quot; in perpetuity.Without the OGL 1.0a, there is literally nothing stopping WotC from going straight to &quot;T$R&quot; legal tactics like cease and desist letters, DMCA takedowns, and various other legal threats and actions.&nbsp; They could just unilaterally declare war on all fan and 3rd party D&amp;D-related content on the web.. . .and no, I don't trust WotC not to do that.&nbsp; If this OGL 1.1 is actually released, they will have forever forfeited that kind of trust.&nbsp; WotC spent a quarter-century telling D&amp;D fans they weren't like the TSR of old, and the OGL was a backbone of that. . .now they've gone back on that.. . .all because (as was covered elsewhere on ENWorld a few months ago), a Hasbro exec was caught saying that he thought D&amp;D was under-monetized.&nbsp; I'd put money that this is an extension of that pressure from executives to get more money out of D&amp;D.This is WotC destroying 25 years of good will they cultivated from the D&amp;D community in one fell swoop, and destroying any kind of trust on a scale that will take decades (if ever) to restore.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 8884313, member: 14159"] Except they can revoke OGL 1.1 at will, explicitly. A license that can be revoked at will is [I]meaningless[/I], it's as worthless as their "Fan Content Policy". The OGL isn't supposed to be able to be revoked, that was a substantial part of its appeal, that the nuts & bolts of D&D were out there "in the open" in perpetuity. Without the OGL 1.0a, there is literally nothing stopping WotC from going straight to "T$R" legal tactics like cease and desist letters, DMCA takedowns, and various other legal threats and actions. They could just unilaterally declare war on all fan and 3rd party D&D-related content on the web. . . .and no, I don't trust WotC not to do that. If this OGL 1.1 is actually released, they will have forever forfeited that kind of trust. WotC spent a quarter-century telling D&D fans they weren't like the TSR of old, and the OGL was a backbone of that. . .now they've gone back on that. . . .all because (as was covered elsewhere on ENWorld a few months ago), a Hasbro exec was caught saying that he thought D&D was under-monetized. I'd put money that this is an extension of that pressure from executives to get more money out of D&D. This is WotC destroying 25 years of good will they cultivated from the D&D community in one fell swoop, and destroying any kind of trust on a scale that will take decades (if ever) to restore. [/QUOTE]

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