----- Original Message ----- From: "Lizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://ptgptb.org/0023/getagrip.html > > Go down to 'the licensing menace'. >
I quote: "The main fear is that at some point in the future WoC/Hasbro will revoke or re-interpret the licence so that all those companies that once took advantage of the open licence will now find themselves on the wrong end of a legal suit that will result in the collapse of their companies. " Um wouldn't this be prevented by section 9 of the license that states: "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." So yes they have the power to change it when they want, but much like the GPL and LGPL, they can't stop you using material already released under the older OGL since you would just continue to use the old ones... Or am I wrong? In fact even if WotC updated the license to say that all OGC released under OGLV2.0 requires payment of 10,000,000 pounds to WotC. You could still use that OGC anyway, by simply using it under the old original license... (Emphasis mine) "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" So in short, I take it the author of that page has made no attempt to read the license? Which I know is your original reason for posting, I just found it so amusing to read :) Unless my interpretation of the license is wrong in which case I'll shut up :P Gary. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
