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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kinematics" data-source="post: 8881320" data-attributes="member: 6932123">This actually sounds like they are not only trying to effectively revoke 1.0a, but that they will likely withdraw it as an ongoing offer. Someone in another thread made the analogy of putting up a wanted poster for a lost dog. If you pull the poster down, you are no longer obligated to pay the reward for anyone returning your dog because you withdrew the offer.In order for the excerpt to make sense — that you cannot create new content that earns income after the 1.1 goes live if you do not accept the new OGL — they would have to cease to offer their content under the 1.0a OGL.  Now, that's entirely feasible. There's a similar condition in the GPL, where you can cease to offer the software under that license, although you cannot revoke the license of people who have already agreed to it.  But if the licensor no longer agrees to the license, it doesn't seem like it would be valid to become a licensee, either.This would mean that, while the 1.0a license still exists, and would still apply to anything created before the introduction of 1.1, WotC could simply stop offering their SRD under 1.0a, leaving everyone with no option but 1.1. That would be the most direct way to "de-authorize" 1.0a.  It's not that the license itself is revoked; just that WotC no longer offers their content under that license. (It's not clear what would happen to downstream sublicensees.)I'm not entirely sure my interpretation here is correct, and I'm not a lawyer, so usual caveats apply. But this feels like the cleanest way they could accomplish this. If they are, in fact, going this route, expect to see existing OGL documents start disappearing.</blockquote>

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