Only for d20 licensed products. Anyone else could use whatever OGL version they wanted regardless of when any new IP was released.
"9. Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated versions of this License. You may use any authorized version of this License to copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under any version of this License."
An OGL 2 could include a clause excluding OGL 1. Doing so would negate OGL 1's legality to cover OGC released under OGL 2.
Such a revision _might_ make it difficult to udpate someone else's original OGC--but given the low rate of non-SRD re-use, this wouldn't be too great of a problem.
New IP is not relevant at all. Unless the new IP is a new type of content not managed by OGL 1.0, then OGL only publishers would have no incentive to use a more restrictive OGL 2.0.
As neither you nor I are lawyers, let's just call this a draw and agree to disagree. Suffice it to say that, if given sufficient reason, WotC could make a new OGL with a mechanism to prevent the current OGL from being used on latter-OGL released work.
I'd say without an incentive plan, the only reason to switch over to OGL 2.0 would be if it sufficiently clarifies things so that use of it avoids potential lawsuits.
I agree. I can only think of a few bits that I'd change on the OGL if I could:
* Require / urge a reasonable effort to use the most recent version of an OGL work.
* Explicitly allow identification of source material. (i.e., make it 100% kosher to say "/Crazy Blaster/ from /Sample Product/.")
* Clarify Section 15's updates to explicitly allow deletion of redundant entries.
So, I really don't see how updating the d20 STL will encourage OGL 2.0 usage in non-d20 licensed publications, particularly if OGL 2.0 is more restrictive than the current one is in any way.
Assuming that OGL 2 has a mechanism to keep OGC2 from being treated as OGC1, a slow cross-over would occur as OGC2 becomes used more and more. The non-d20 licnesed market is so incredibly small, it can be moved by the margin of a marginal industry.
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