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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8878254" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't agree with what you say in this post, in two respects:First, I think it is highly unlikely that WotC will offer to license the revised SRD on terms that would make all the IP of parties to the new licence (v 11), who are also parties to the existing OGL (v 1.0/1.0a), available to WotC via a royalty-free licence. Of course, as far as the OGC published by Paizo is concerned, WotC already has the opportunity of publishing as much of that as they like under the existing OGL.Second - and this is moving further from my fields of expertise, but is still something on which I have a modest intuition - I would expect that there is a plausible argument, in US contract and licensing law, that if WotC were to exercise a power of at-will revocation so as to deprive (say) Paizo of the benefits of any licence, then WotC would simultaneously lose its rights to an in-perpetuity royatly-free licence to Paizo's work. Or to put it another way, I doubt that the only tenable construction of the licence terms would be that one party is able to revoke at will while retaining the full benefit, in perpetuity, of the contractual promise made by the other party. (I am not saying that this is knock-down in any sense, only that I would expect there to be a plausible argument here. Of course everything will turn on the details of the drafting of the OGL v 1.1.)</blockquote>