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Maybe I don’t fully understand how public copyright licenses work. Do you need to apply for a license? When OGL1.1 comes out does 1.0 die? If somebody infrin
by raydiatian 4y ago
Maybe I don’t fully understand how public copyright licenses work.
Do you need to apply for a license?
When OGL1.1 comes out does 1.0 die?
If somebody infringes on your license, do you get a free OGL lawyer or something to help your case?
In conclusion, it almost sounds like OGL is fucking useless in the first place if they can just upgrade it to be paid at scale but clearly I’m missing something
- boole1854 4y ago> When OGL1.1 comes out does 1.0 die? The issue is that part of the 1.0 license says users "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" (emphasis added). And part of 1.1 says that 1.0 "is no longer an authorized license agreement". So, in other words, 1.0 had an embedded kill switch which 1.1 activates. At least that's the legal theory which WotC is operating on.
- 93po 4y agoI have no law experience but I feel like no longer recognizing a previous license you created doesn't force an upgrade to a new license, but rather would invalidate any licensing at all on all content that had the old license.
- 93po 4y agoI realized after writing this that my logic doesn't work great and I would rather just delete this if possible :)