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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8908823" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>The text of the SRDs was incorporated into products. </p><p></p><p>That text was covered under copyright law and owned by Wizards.</p><p></p><p>That text was licensed to be used as is by Wizards to anyone complying with the OGL 1.0a.</p><p></p><p>That text has been incorporated verbatim into many projects over the years.</p><p></p><p>Those companies that acted in good faith that Wizards was allowing them to use that text verbatim for perpetuity and incorporated the text verbatim into products now need to go back and clean room their games to rewrite the text in such a way that it no longer violates Wizards copyright.</p><p></p><p>This is disruptive and expensive and also a result solely of Wizards deceptive business practice of representing a copyright license as being forever when it was not. Or from them deceptively trying to terminate a license that is actually irrevocable.</p><p></p><p>Either way this is bad, and completely solvable by just leaving the OGL alone and creating a new trademark license for their compatibility logos that has the extra restrictions they want on it to allow you to mark yourself as "Wizards approved" instead of "someone who might be doing things wizards dislikes".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8908823, member: 19857"] The text of the SRDs was incorporated into products. That text was covered under copyright law and owned by Wizards. That text was licensed to be used as is by Wizards to anyone complying with the OGL 1.0a. That text has been incorporated verbatim into many projects over the years. Those companies that acted in good faith that Wizards was allowing them to use that text verbatim for perpetuity and incorporated the text verbatim into products now need to go back and clean room their games to rewrite the text in such a way that it no longer violates Wizards copyright. This is disruptive and expensive and also a result solely of Wizards deceptive business practice of representing a copyright license as being forever when it was not. Or from them deceptively trying to terminate a license that is actually irrevocable. Either way this is bad, and completely solvable by just leaving the OGL alone and creating a new trademark license for their compatibility logos that has the extra restrictions they want on it to allow you to mark yourself as "Wizards approved" instead of "someone who might be doing things wizards dislikes". [/QUOTE]
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