rudgar wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:50 am
I understand the position, but I hope that we can at least keep the old stuff on the download page. (Especially thinking about supplements where maybe the author has left).
I think that should probably depend more on the Paizo's lawsuit against WotC than on what WotC says.
rudgar wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:50 am
This quote would seem to protect such products in perpetuity:
It does not mean that any content previously published under that version needs to update to this license. Any previously published content remains licensed under whichever version of the OGL was in effect when you published that content.
Except the fact it doesn't clarify what
publishing is.
Is publishing in the internet an one-off action (you uploaded the file, it's an act of publishing) or continuous action (people make a request, the response contains the file, that's the act of publishing)?
This becomes even more difficult with print-on-demand. Does publishing happen when print-on-demand book is placed on Lulu, or when Lulu actually prints the book?
I don't know how the US law interpets this. But I can say that Belarusian and Russian law interprets this as a continuous action: you're not making something available in the Internet once, you're continuiously making it available. (And some some law changes to make your past posts in social media illegal, you need to delete them. If you don't, you're committing crime by keeping the posts available.)
Is the US law different on this? I don't know! But since WotC has zero trust right now, I'd assume the worse case. Just to be prepared.
rudgar wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:50 am
Not saying that it should be used for new content going forward, just hoping that the old stuff isn't thrown out
It won't be thrown out. I've already saved all the books. I'm sure many more people have done the same.
If they're deleted, people are going to share them in private messages, in torrents, in Libgen, etc. It's not like it's going to become unreachable. It's going to become harder to get, sure, but I'm sure they will be available.