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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8919491" data-attributes="member: 10531"><p>However, those of us who were involved in the licensing discussions back in 2000 <em>did</em> consider it, among a whole lot of other scenarios for what WotC could do with the update provision. General consensus was simply that people should be careful about what they released under the OGL if they were worried about controlling what other people could do with it, because the limits of the original OGL could always be circumvented by a later one, if WotC decided changing the limits was in their interest.</p><p></p><p>Granted, it was seen as more likely that WotC would, say, give themselves the right to use someone's OGC in a WotC-licensed computer game than to release all OGC under a more-permissive license, but the update clause was understood to be a huge grant of power.</p><p></p><p>(That's also why we insisted on a right to always revert to an older version of the license. The idea that "any authorized version" could be interpreted to mean "those versions WotC is authorizing right now" as opposed to "any verison WotC ever authorized" <em>did not</em> occur to us, unfortunately, or this last month would have been a lot less annoying.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="see, post: 8919491, member: 10531"] However, those of us who were involved in the licensing discussions back in 2000 [I]did[/I] consider it, among a whole lot of other scenarios for what WotC could do with the update provision. General consensus was simply that people should be careful about what they released under the OGL if they were worried about controlling what other people could do with it, because the limits of the original OGL could always be circumvented by a later one, if WotC decided changing the limits was in their interest. Granted, it was seen as more likely that WotC would, say, give themselves the right to use someone's OGC in a WotC-licensed computer game than to release all OGC under a more-permissive license, but the update clause was understood to be a huge grant of power. (That's also why we insisted on a right to always revert to an older version of the license. The idea that "any authorized version" could be interpreted to mean "those versions WotC is authorizing right now" as opposed to "any verison WotC ever authorized" [I]did not[/I] occur to us, unfortunately, or this last month would have been a lot less annoying.) [/QUOTE]
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