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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8904332" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>Again: "I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it any further." Vader spoke that line to clearly indicate just how villainous he was being, that he <em>knew</em> exactly what he was doing and did not care that it meant violating his word and strong-arming others into obedience whenever and wherever he felt like it. WotC is doing <em>exactly the same thing</em>, they're just dressing it up in nicer terms and trying to backpedal.</p><p></p><p>They are explicitly, specifically, and intentionally taking a license which was, <em>by literally twenty years of precedent</em>, supposed to be irrevocable. It did not include the word "irrevocable" because open-content licenses did not have that word in them in 2000, and the OGL was not updated to include that word like other open content licenses were. They are now unilaterally giving themselves the power to "de-authorize" prior versions of their agreements--declaring they <em>have</em> the power to alter the deal, pray they don't alter it any further--and expecting everyone who depended on the stability, consistency, and clarity of "this is a forever license" to simply roll over and accept that.</p><p></p><p>For God's sake, if the Federal government declared that they were rescinding the Bill of Rights and replacing it with a new one that didn't protect freedom of religious expression nor forbid religious qualifications, would you accept it because it was "generous" despite not being "as generous as before"? And I am <em>genuinely going to be very upset</em> if you say "yes."</p><p></p><p>Rescinding guaranteed and implicitly irrevocable terms is a cause for opposition. Doesn't matter if it's something much smaller than freedom of expression.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8904332, member: 6790260"] Again: "I am altering the deal, pray I do not alter it any further." Vader spoke that line to clearly indicate just how villainous he was being, that he [I]knew[/I] exactly what he was doing and did not care that it meant violating his word and strong-arming others into obedience whenever and wherever he felt like it. WotC is doing [I]exactly the same thing[/I], they're just dressing it up in nicer terms and trying to backpedal. They are explicitly, specifically, and intentionally taking a license which was, [I]by literally twenty years of precedent[/I], supposed to be irrevocable. It did not include the word "irrevocable" because open-content licenses did not have that word in them in 2000, and the OGL was not updated to include that word like other open content licenses were. They are now unilaterally giving themselves the power to "de-authorize" prior versions of their agreements--declaring they [I]have[/I] the power to alter the deal, pray they don't alter it any further--and expecting everyone who depended on the stability, consistency, and clarity of "this is a forever license" to simply roll over and accept that. For God's sake, if the Federal government declared that they were rescinding the Bill of Rights and replacing it with a new one that didn't protect freedom of religious expression nor forbid religious qualifications, would you accept it because it was "generous" despite not being "as generous as before"? And I am [I]genuinely going to be very upset[/I] if you say "yes." Rescinding guaranteed and implicitly irrevocable terms is a cause for opposition. Doesn't matter if it's something much smaller than freedom of expression. [/QUOTE]
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