Faustus von Goethe wrote:
> HOWEVER, the reality is indisputable. The fact that Wizards' owns outright
> your only license fundamentally makes your foundation irrelevant.
You keep saying stuff like "your only license." It's not the OGF's license.
> This morning at 10:00 they could walk into your office and hand you a letter
> that states that neither your nor the foundation had the right to ever again
> distribute or discuss that license.
And they would be wrong. The license is there to be used. Ryan could publish
OGL stuff using the license and deriving work from other previously published
OGC.
> *piff* - no license? = no supporters, no IP, no volunteers, no products - no
> D20 - no press coverage - no relevance.
Nope. And the OGF does support, according to Ryan's statements, the broader
open gaming movement. To whatever extent it exists.
> Until you carry and support additional licenses - and those licenses are
> being used - the foundation AS IT IS exists solely at Wizard's discretion.
Nope. Ignoring the legal intricacies of whether the OGF exists at all, the OGF
has been created. It is. It is not under the control of WotC. And if the WotC
management team all got together and wished real hard, it would still be there.
At least if Ryan wanted it to be there.
> Further, the right to distribute the license >can< be revoked - this is the
> essence of the problem with the permission to distribute NOT being contained
> in the license itself.
But the right to distribute the license is de facto included by requiring the
distribution. I think they would have a hard time trying to pull the license
back now.
Chris
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