WotC OGL 1.1 leaks.
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I'm pretty sure that once you grant a perpetual license it cannot be revoked. Perpetual does mean "forever" after all. My suspicion is if they tried shut down competitors using material under the original license a court would say that the revised license only extends to WOTC content introduced after it went into effect.
Yep. The argument would be that no OGL versions are authorized anymore. (Except the poison pill 1.1 version.) Backed by Hasbro's lawyers.
I want to see them lose the court battle to put the genie back into the bottle.
It will be a thing of legend.
I wonder how much of this is driven by Pathfinder 2E doing better than them? I mean, I did hear the news about Paizo adding a bio-essentialism errata like Tasha's Cauldron of Everything did, but I can just tell anyone who wants that errata used to go screw themselves, hopefully enough.
Speaking of, is Paizo going to get caught in this mess if this goes ahead?
Honestly, I think wokeness in companies is frequently comorbid with scummy business practices like this one, now that I think about it.
PF2E is not doing better than 5E/WotC.