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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashtagon" data-source="post: 8919341" data-attributes="member: 72335">Realistically, I don't see how a 1.0b could be retroactively applied to a book published with the 1.0 or 1.0a licences. If the original publisher isn't around to re-publish those older books under 1.0b, the best legal defence we can hope for those books if WotC gets drunk like this again is this. A combination of a) standard legal text at the time the older OGLs were written, b) Darcy's own statements, c) WotC's earlier faq regarding the licence's durability, d) the existence of a newer licence identical in all ways except to fix the text in line with modern legal terminology for this sort of case, and e) the fact that the older publishers are dead, would all combine to show a continuous intent for how the licence should read.I'll grant it's not perfect, but it's the best possible way to protect that legacy content (short of waiting 75 years for it to fall out of copyright).</blockquote>