There is indeed an update from Wizards! Details here:

http://mxyzplk.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/wizards-comes-clean-on-open-gaming/

Meanwhile, WotC's still on info-lockdown mode on this. The Wizards managers who previously spoke on the subject, Scott and Linae, aren't posting, and the promised clarification from Wizards was set for last Monday, then last week, now "Maybe this week - maybe not" according to a WotC community liasion.

Three main logical options exist, none of them good.

1. They're stalling so that when they fess up to trying to kill off the OGL it's after all the distributor orders and customer preorders for 4e ship, and ideally after all the people see it in stores and buy it (release date is June 6, only a month away).

2. They are seeing the error of their ways and are quickly trying to get the license revamped internally. They aren't saying that, but we can hope.

3. They are so arrogant that they don't think their customers or the third party publishers (who they stonewalled all last week at GAMA, the big game publisher's conference in Vegas) deserve an answer. I would hope not, but it's not like many big businesses don't work this way still today.

None of these are great - #3 is the only option in which they weren't trying to poison the OGL - but #2 is a hopeful option at least.

EMI = Enema Munchers International

No - don't be decieved, that statement does NOT cover the issue at hand. You have to carefully read what he says and what he doesn't say.

Sure, he says the OGL is irrevocable. Of course it is, that's never been in doubt. The question is whether the licensing terms of their new GSL will "poison pill" companies from producing OGL as well - not with the same product, but at all.

The GSL/OGL per company poison pill clause was explicitly communicated to a game company owner (and lawyer) by WotC in a phone call specifically on the subject. It's not "rumor", it's just not publicly confirmed or denied by Wizards - and that includes this interview. Note that Rouse immediately departs from any discussion of the OGL to discussion of the d20 STL. Nothing he says, if you're fluent in corporate weasel-speak, says "We won't require GSL licensees to stop producing OGL games." He says that a company could keep producing OGL games - but later, they'll say "well, of course you can *choose* to do that, you just have to *choose* to forgo any D&D 4e publishing."

If you are actually concerned about this issue, it's best to read up on the specifics - http://mxyzplk.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/wizards-of-the-coast-declares-war-on-open-gaming/

And Wizards still isn't talking...

http://mxyzplk.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/wizards-still-silent-on-anti-open-licensing-flap/