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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8881594" data-attributes="member: 10531"><p>Under the legal theory presented in the first post of the thread "<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/hello-i-am-lawyer-with-a-psa-almost-everyone-is-wrong-about-the-ogl-and-srd-clearing-up-confusion.694192/post-8878598" target="_blank">Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.</a>", "unless the word 'irrevocable' appears in the license, the license can be revoked at any time, for any reason or for no reason."</p><p></p><p>None of the licenses I listed have the word "irrevocable" in them, any more than the OGL has. (Neither does the GNU FDL, incidentally.) So, under that theory, anyone who has ever released material under any of those licenses can take back their material by revoking that license for their material.</p><p></p><p>So, that's the context for my <em>very specific</em> scenario -- "if we assume that WotC/Hasbro really and truly intends to try to <em>revoke</em> the OGL 1.0a with regard to already-released material in the case of people who have not agreed to the OGL 1.1". </p><p></p><p>We <em>don't know</em> that's the current situation, because, of course, "We still don't know <em>exactly</em> what's happening here, we've got partial reports based on leaks, plus various statements from lawyers."</p><p></p><p>But <em>if</em> we are in the world where WotC/Hasbro has decided to say, "The OGL 1.0a didn't say 'irrevocable', so you people using the SRD, RSRD, SRD5, or other Open Game Content derived from them (like Pathfinder or Level Up!) can't use that content under the OGL 1.0a anymore"?</p><p></p><p>Then, yes, all those specific software licenses are, in fact, also under threat, and the thing to do is legislative action to eliminate that sort of revocability.</p><p></p><p>If we're not in that world -- if WotC/Hasbro is not going to go around trying to shut down people from continuing to use OGC relelased under the OGL 1.0a under the OGL 1.0a -- then I don't see any reason to "respond" to WotC/Hasbro at all. They want to put the SRD for the new version under whatever license they like, that's their business, and we can ignore them like it's 2008 all over again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="see, post: 8881594, member: 10531"] Under the legal theory presented in the first post of the thread "[URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/hello-i-am-lawyer-with-a-psa-almost-everyone-is-wrong-about-the-ogl-and-srd-clearing-up-confusion.694192/post-8878598']Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.[/URL]", "unless the word 'irrevocable' appears in the license, the license can be revoked at any time, for any reason or for no reason." None of the licenses I listed have the word "irrevocable" in them, any more than the OGL has. (Neither does the GNU FDL, incidentally.) So, under that theory, anyone who has ever released material under any of those licenses can take back their material by revoking that license for their material. So, that's the context for my [I]very specific[/I] scenario -- "if we assume that WotC/Hasbro really and truly intends to try to [I]revoke[/I] the OGL 1.0a with regard to already-released material in the case of people who have not agreed to the OGL 1.1". We [I]don't know[/I] that's the current situation, because, of course, "We still don't know [I]exactly[/I] what's happening here, we've got partial reports based on leaks, plus various statements from lawyers." But [I]if[/I] we are in the world where WotC/Hasbro has decided to say, "The OGL 1.0a didn't say 'irrevocable', so you people using the SRD, RSRD, SRD5, or other Open Game Content derived from them (like Pathfinder or Level Up!) can't use that content under the OGL 1.0a anymore"? Then, yes, all those specific software licenses are, in fact, also under threat, and the thing to do is legislative action to eliminate that sort of revocability. If we're not in that world -- if WotC/Hasbro is not going to go around trying to shut down people from continuing to use OGC relelased under the OGL 1.0a under the OGL 1.0a -- then I don't see any reason to "respond" to WotC/Hasbro at all. They want to put the SRD for the new version under whatever license they like, that's their business, and we can ignore them like it's 2008 all over again. [/QUOTE]
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