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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal II" data-source="post: 8867339" data-attributes="member: 6794067">Correct in that neither Bob nor Jane can receive royalties for their work from future authors. If Jane ever charges royalties for her work or Bob's, then she is in breach. If Jane pays royalties to WotC, that is a different situation. Royalty rights are rights to receive compensation from others that use your work. Jane isn't getting anything that Bob is entitled to. He has no standing or cause for a suit. What redress is Bob trying to get, a royalty that he waived that Jane didn't receive? You don't relinquish rights to pay a royalty; that's non-sensical.The waiving of royalties refers to the author waiving the right to receive royalties for their work in return for creating and selling material that utilizes the D&D ruleset. The new license states there is a singular instance where a royalty is paid, not to the author, which has been permanently waived, but the owner of the ruleset that the works are derived from.There is no breach. No author is receiving a royalty. There also isn't an issue, as far as I can see, with Jane using OGL 1.0 material in a OGL 1.1 product. A future author would need to be clear on the source of Bob's material, did it come from Bob's product under OGL 1.0 or through Jane's OGL 1.1?(Emphasis to highlight what I think are key points, not emotional emphasis. I stand upon my soapbox rhetorically only.)</blockquote>