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Part of the contention is that the OGL 1.1 is trying to retroactively revoke the OGL 1.0. Whether or not that is legal is, well, a legal question. But boycottin

Part of the contention is that the OGL 1.1 is trying to retroactively revoke the OGL 1.0. Whether or not that is legal is, well, a legal question. But boycotting the new edition is not "the only thing" the industry has to do, if building on the OGL 1.0 is no longer valid. Provided that WotC does follow through with trying to revoke the previous version, the major thing that will have to play out is to figure out which third-party company is going to end up trying to battle Hasbro in court over whether their maneuver is legal. If anyone, it will probably be Paizo, as one of the largest players building off the OGL. But until that legal question is settled, boycotting the new version (while still building off OGL 1.0) is a dangerous option.

alexvoda 4y ago
I say the community should be more proactive. Hasbro is surely using plenty of open source software under licenses like MIT, BSD, GPL v2 which do not have the magic word "irrevocable". I say some software devs should just declare that if Hasbro retroactively revokes licenses then the licenses for their IT infrastructure also gets revoked. If this goes to court and Hasbro wins, this creates an monstrously dangerous precedent for the software industry. So maybe someone should take their infrastructure hostage before it get to court.