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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 8928502" data-attributes="member: 40166"><p>The CC licenses are closely analogous to the BSD and GPL licenses. An argument that WotC can pull back a CC license from the SRD is going to be basically the same as an argument that someone can pull back a BSD or GPL license. It's the same thing; you're offering a license on a copyrighted text to all and sundry. That means there are hundreds of people and dozens of companies that can wave a hand and force every Android device in existence to rewrite parts of the kernel before they can go on shipping it. There are slightly fewer people, but still quite a few random people, who could tell Apple to stop shipping Macs until they change the operating system. It may not change the court's mind, but Alphabet, Apple and Samsung are three of the largest companies in the world, and they have a vested interest in not letting random people put a halt to them shipping product at will. Not to mention Amazon, who roll out new copies of the Linux kernel every second of the day on AWS, and use Alphabet's Android code in Kindles. Everyone assumes these licenses aren't revocable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 8928502, member: 40166"] The CC licenses are closely analogous to the BSD and GPL licenses. An argument that WotC can pull back a CC license from the SRD is going to be basically the same as an argument that someone can pull back a BSD or GPL license. It's the same thing; you're offering a license on a copyrighted text to all and sundry. That means there are hundreds of people and dozens of companies that can wave a hand and force every Android device in existence to rewrite parts of the kernel before they can go on shipping it. There are slightly fewer people, but still quite a few random people, who could tell Apple to stop shipping Macs until they change the operating system. It may not change the court's mind, but Alphabet, Apple and Samsung are three of the largest companies in the world, and they have a vested interest in not letting random people put a halt to them shipping product at will. Not to mention Amazon, who roll out new copies of the Linux kernel every second of the day on AWS, and use Alphabet's Android code in Kindles. Everyone assumes these licenses aren't revocable. [/QUOTE]
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