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<blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2171843" data-attributes="member: 3477"><p>As Man-thing already said, this only one side of the medal. The latest version of the d20 license document contains the following paragraph:</p><p></p><p><em>"4. Quality Standards</em></p><p><em>The nature of all material You use or distribute that incorporates the Licensed Articles <strong>must comply with all applicable laws and regulations, as well as community standards of decency</strong>, as further described in the d20 System Guide. You must use Your best efforts to preserve the high standard and goodwill of the Licensed Trademarks. In order to assure the foregoing standard and quality requirements, Wizards of the Coast shall have the right, upon notice to You, to review and inspect all material released by You that uses the Licensed Articles. You shall fully cooperate with Wizards of the Coast to facilitate such review and inspection, including timely provision of copies of all such materials to Wizards of the Coast. <strong>Wizards of the Coast may terminate this License immediately upon attempted notice to you if it deems, in its sole discretion, that your use of the Licensed Articles does not meet the above standards.</strong>"</em></p><p></p><p>As you probably know, the cultural standards in this area differ vastly between Europe and the US. It's understandable that not everybody wants to test how serious WotC is with its option to terminate the license immediately, in their sole discretion, when they think their standards are not met. The following paragraph then describes that all product has to be destroyed in such a case.</p><p></p><p>In this light, the attempt to establish the OGL logo as a near equivalent to the d20 logo seems understandable <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Turjan, post: 2171843, member: 3477"] As Man-thing already said, this only one side of the medal. The latest version of the d20 license document contains the following paragraph: [I]"4. Quality Standards The nature of all material You use or distribute that incorporates the Licensed Articles [B]must comply with all applicable laws and regulations, as well as community standards of decency[/B], as further described in the d20 System Guide. You must use Your best efforts to preserve the high standard and goodwill of the Licensed Trademarks. In order to assure the foregoing standard and quality requirements, Wizards of the Coast shall have the right, upon notice to You, to review and inspect all material released by You that uses the Licensed Articles. You shall fully cooperate with Wizards of the Coast to facilitate such review and inspection, including timely provision of copies of all such materials to Wizards of the Coast. [B]Wizards of the Coast may terminate this License immediately upon attempted notice to you if it deems, in its sole discretion, that your use of the Licensed Articles does not meet the above standards.[/B]"[/I] As you probably know, the cultural standards in this area differ vastly between Europe and the US. It's understandable that not everybody wants to test how serious WotC is with its option to terminate the license immediately, in their sole discretion, when they think their standards are not met. The following paragraph then describes that all product has to be destroyed in such a case. In this light, the attempt to establish the OGL logo as a near equivalent to the d20 logo seems understandable ;). [/QUOTE]
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