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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8907392" data-attributes="member: 6790260">1. The existing draft allows WotC, forever, to decide that your license is revoked because you, or anyone who works for you, ever wrote or said anything they consider "obscene." Keep in mind, there are issues right now with depictions of LGBTQ+ people being labelled as inherently obscene. I do not believe the WotC of today would do that, but I cannot trust the WotC of 10, 15, 20 years from now. They cannot be permitted to be judge, jury, and executioner.2. The existing draft is unclear on whether the license also applies between two third parties (e.g. publisher A makes some open game content, can both WotC and other publishers use the open game content parts?), possibly even explicitly excluding such things. That would be a very bad state of affairs, and should be avoided.Do you believe either of these concerns are illegitimate?Because the license explicitly describes only "Our Content" (that created by WotC) and "Your Content" (that created by an individual third party.) It does not account for the possibility that two different third parties, two different "You"s, could interact with one another. As a result of saying nothing about that, the (likely unintentional) implication is that you cannot do that: that OGC is exclusively something that exists between each individual creator and WotC.It's the difference between "any participants can iterate on anyone else's open content, in whatever arrangements they want" and "individual people can iterate on WotC's open content, and WotC can iterate on anyone's open content, but two individuals cannot iterate on one another's open content."</blockquote>

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