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<blockquote data-quote="Alby87" data-source="post: 8866435" data-attributes="member: 7031244"><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Time for the NOSR (New Old School Renaissance)!</span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just an example: they put all new material on Beyond with a time-exclusive of, say, one year. New adventures, new subclasses, new rules, only accessible via Beyond. THEN, after a year, there will be also the book. They did this already for Dragonlance, albeit for two weeks between electronic and book release, but still...</p><p></p><p>---</p><p>Reading the OGL, Section 4:</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Grant and Consideration:</em></strong><em> In consideration for agreeing to use this License, the Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license with the exact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content.</em></p><p></p><p>This is perpetual until the license is valid. Until the OGL license is valid, every content under it is licensed perpetually. But the OGL needs to be valid.</p><p></p><p>Section 9:</p><p><strong><em>Updating the License:</em></strong><em> Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated versions of this License. You may use any <span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><strong>authorized version</strong></span> of this License to copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under any version of this License.</em></p><p></p><p>Authorized version. If WotC will revoke the authorization, section 4 will be voided, and so all the "perpetual grants". There are no writings about not revokability of the OGL authorization.</p><p></p><p>I'm no lawyer, but if this loophole is usable, they could kill all the previous OGL 1.0a releases...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alby87, post: 8866435, member: 7031244"] [SIZE=1]Time for the NOSR (New Old School Renaissance)![/SIZE] Just an example: they put all new material on Beyond with a time-exclusive of, say, one year. New adventures, new subclasses, new rules, only accessible via Beyond. THEN, after a year, there will be also the book. They did this already for Dragonlance, albeit for two weeks between electronic and book release, but still... --- Reading the OGL, Section 4: [B][I]Grant and Consideration:[/I][/B][I] In consideration for agreeing to use this License, the Contributors grant You a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license with the exact terms of this License to Use, the Open Game Content.[/I] This is perpetual until the license is valid. Until the OGL license is valid, every content under it is licensed perpetually. But the OGL needs to be valid. Section 9: [B][I]Updating the License:[/I][/B][I] Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated versions of this License. You may use any [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][B]authorized version[/B][/COLOR] of this License to copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under any version of this License.[/I] Authorized version. If WotC will revoke the authorization, section 4 will be voided, and so all the "perpetual grants". There are no writings about not revokability of the OGL authorization. I'm no lawyer, but if this loophole is usable, they could kill all the previous OGL 1.0a releases... [/QUOTE]
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