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<blockquote data-quote="mhd" data-source="post: 8881543" data-attributes="member: 16805"><p>Do you think gaming FAANG devs will lobby the EFF or their employers to sic their lawyers on this? I don't really think this connection will help a lot here.</p><p></p><p>Again, IANAL: But let's assume that WotC does enact a terrible reign. A lot of that will happen without any big lawsuits. No direct threat for software licenses.</p><p></p><p>Okay, then lawsuit does happen. If the WotC/Hasbro lawyers are smart, they phrase it so that this still doesn't imply anything for other licenses. But assume that they fail to do that or the opposing lawyers point out that this would wreak havoc. Lawsuit still takes time. Then it can go through the instances. At any point in time, this might wake up the software giant, but not necessarily. Once it's done and there's a plausible scenario that someone will revoke a software license that would hurt, some lobbying might happen. Or just money for the "underdog lawyers" fighting this.</p><p></p><p>What are we going to do in the mean time?</p><p></p><p>(And again, this was me blindly assuming that the connection can be made. I personally don't even see <em>who</em> could revoke e.g. the MIT license.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mhd, post: 8881543, member: 16805"] Do you think gaming FAANG devs will lobby the EFF or their employers to sic their lawyers on this? I don't really think this connection will help a lot here. Again, IANAL: But let's assume that WotC does enact a terrible reign. A lot of that will happen without any big lawsuits. No direct threat for software licenses. Okay, then lawsuit does happen. If the WotC/Hasbro lawyers are smart, they phrase it so that this still doesn't imply anything for other licenses. But assume that they fail to do that or the opposing lawyers point out that this would wreak havoc. Lawsuit still takes time. Then it can go through the instances. At any point in time, this might wake up the software giant, but not necessarily. Once it's done and there's a plausible scenario that someone will revoke a software license that would hurt, some lobbying might happen. Or just money for the "underdog lawyers" fighting this. What are we going to do in the mean time? (And again, this was me blindly assuming that the connection can be made. I personally don't even see [I]who[/I] could revoke e.g. the MIT license.) [/QUOTE]
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