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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8867278" data-attributes="member: 8461">Well, there are (currently) two, with terms that are near-identical; the only difference between v1.0 and v1.0a that I'm aware of is that the Section 7 is different, where the former talks about &quot;trademark&quot; the latter refers to &quot;trademark or registered trademark.&quot; v1.1 has yet to be released, so at this point it's more of an idea than anything.Well, as noted, I'm interpreting Section 9 differently than you are: that as written, it allows people to use &quot;any authorized version of this License&quot; (such as the OGL v1.0a) to &quot;copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content&quot; (such as the 1D&amp;D SRD) that was &quot;originally distributed under any version of this License&quot; (such as the OGL v1.1).As such, you could use any particular iteration of the OGL (or rather, you could use v1.0, v1.0a, or presumably v1.1, though that's still presumptive at this point) to copy, modify, or distribute any particular Open Game Content from any iteration of the OGL, and the one which you use it under then becomes &quot;this license&quot; for the purposes of Section 3.Now, I can absolutely see that being less sensible for WotC, in terms of it doesn't give them the degree of control that they seem to want with regard to usage of the OGL v1.1, but that strikes me as being the intent of the wording in v1.0 and v1.0a; they're &quot;future-proofing&quot; Open Game Content from exactly that sort of restrictions.But as noted, that's just my lay opinion. We might know more when v1.1 finally releases, but until then it's all speculative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8867278, member: 8461"] Well, there are (currently) two, with terms that are near-identical; the only difference between v1.0 and v1.0a that I'm aware of is that the Section 7 is different, where the former talks about "trademark" the latter refers to "trademark or registered trademark." v1.1 has yet to be released, so at this point it's more of an idea than anything. Well, as noted, I'm interpreting Section 9 differently than you are: that as written, it allows people to use "any authorized version of this License" (such as the OGL v1.0a) to "copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content" (such as the 1D&D SRD) that was "originally distributed under any version of this License" (such as the OGL v1.1). As such, you could use any particular iteration of the OGL (or rather, you could use v1.0, v1.0a, or presumably v1.1, though that's still presumptive at this point) to copy, modify, or distribute any particular Open Game Content from any iteration of the OGL, and the one which you use it under then becomes "this license" for the purposes of Section 3. Now, I can absolutely see that being less sensible for WotC, in terms of it doesn't give them the degree of control that they seem to want with regard to usage of the OGL v1.1, but that strikes me as being the intent of the wording in v1.0 and v1.0a; they're "future-proofing" Open Game Content from exactly that sort of restrictions. But as noted, that's just my lay opinion. We might know more when v1.1 finally releases, but until then it's all speculative. [/QUOTE]

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