GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
Jon Brazer Enterprises said:Also the OGL requires that the OGL be in any and all products that use the OGL. No exceptions. Not even Wizards of the Coast and they wrote the thing.
Only for certain definitions of "they". The current WotC, which is to say "Wizards of the Coast, a Division of Hasbro", would like nothing better than to erase the OGL and all material their independent predecessor (the WotC that released Magic and bought D&D) released under it. The two companies bear very little in common, at any level, other than their collections of trademarks.
Fortunately for our endeavors here, Ryan Dancey and the rest of the team that wrote the OGL knew better.
WotC still retains two forms of control over the OGL, however. Neither is worrisome alone, but together they could put a publisher in a rough spot. The first is copyright of the legal document that is the OGL. The second is the "super editorial" control that was added in the 2.0 version, that give WotC the right to C&D any product published under the OGL for "objectionable" content. OGL 2.0, and thus that clause, was tied to the "D20" trademark agreement. Since the D20 TA has now been rescinded, most everyone is using OGL 1.0.
If Mongoose is using OGL 2.0, they should really examine why they are doing so.