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<blockquote data-quote="ladyofdragons" data-source="post: 408438" data-attributes="member: 5718"><p>I've been watching this thread with interest, because I've been working on my own D20 software off and on (mostly off) for some time now, mostly as a programming exercise. I have a few comments and questions.</p><p></p><p>1) Repeatedly people say to look in the OGL lists. I went ahead and tried to search through the lists to find these elusive posts, try to get some more info. Which would probably take me hours, since there isn't a search facility or a FAQ or anything, and nobody's nice enough to actually subject their posts properly as to the nature of the information contained therein so I'd have to read every post for the past 6 months. Just a comment on my part about the state of the OGL lists, which I am now subscribed to.</p><p></p><p>2) binaries vs. 'human readable'. I'm a VB coder, and as such my code is compiled into binary. So, I'm trying to figure out ways to do what I need without violating any licenses, and without having to load all of the script in afterwards as text (which will slow things down considerably). So trying to figure out what's legal:</p><p>- could I have a button on each form that will bring up notepad with the uncompiled code for that form, as well as code in all called modules & classes, with OGC-derived content clearly marked? it's not exactly like giving out the source code with the binary, and would be human readable.</p><p>- or perhaps just have buttons that come up listing just the code bits that are OGC-derived. Maybe in a help file? then you could click the AC label, and it would bring up the topic containing the code used to derive AC, and that it is OGC derived content.</p><p>- I've created a database to hold the information. The database currently is in Access, and is human readable (if you have Access). Can I just say that the database structure is my own design, based on principals that are OGC-derived? </p><p></p><p>This is such a sticky situation. I'd rather do this right the first time than have to go back and change it later like so many small-time coders are doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ladyofdragons, post: 408438, member: 5718"] I've been watching this thread with interest, because I've been working on my own D20 software off and on (mostly off) for some time now, mostly as a programming exercise. I have a few comments and questions. 1) Repeatedly people say to look in the OGL lists. I went ahead and tried to search through the lists to find these elusive posts, try to get some more info. Which would probably take me hours, since there isn't a search facility or a FAQ or anything, and nobody's nice enough to actually subject their posts properly as to the nature of the information contained therein so I'd have to read every post for the past 6 months. Just a comment on my part about the state of the OGL lists, which I am now subscribed to. 2) binaries vs. 'human readable'. I'm a VB coder, and as such my code is compiled into binary. So, I'm trying to figure out ways to do what I need without violating any licenses, and without having to load all of the script in afterwards as text (which will slow things down considerably). So trying to figure out what's legal: - could I have a button on each form that will bring up notepad with the uncompiled code for that form, as well as code in all called modules & classes, with OGC-derived content clearly marked? it's not exactly like giving out the source code with the binary, and would be human readable. - or perhaps just have buttons that come up listing just the code bits that are OGC-derived. Maybe in a help file? then you could click the AC label, and it would bring up the topic containing the code used to derive AC, and that it is OGC derived content. - I've created a database to hold the information. The database currently is in Access, and is human readable (if you have Access). Can I just say that the database structure is my own design, based on principals that are OGC-derived? This is such a sticky situation. I'd rather do this right the first time than have to go back and change it later like so many small-time coders are doing. [/QUOTE]
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