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<blockquote data-quote="karianna" data-source="post: 3239694" data-attributes="member: 8340"><p>The area of reading our datasets is a grey area, although from our research into the legalities of it, we _think_ it's perfectly legal to do so <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>The legalities around the distribution of the datasets or converted versions of those datasets is better understood. As we stated above, OGL - pretty much go for it, Permissioned - Probably best that you get hold of original IP holder, which we've clearly stated we can help with. Either way yes it would be polite to ask us for permission as well, it's not that hard <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>We've already had one nice approach from a commercial entity and we're pretty confident we'll be giving them our whole hearted support and blessing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not going to add any extra legal statement to the one we already made above. But you can understand that we have a massive community that's put in over 6 years of hard work on these datasets. To have someone come along and just use them for their own commercial gain (without our permission) would be be seen as exceedingly nasty (I mean you'd be pretty pissed off if you were us right?). Even _if_ we couldn't do something about it legally (and we'd definitely investigate that option), our dissenting voices would be heard loud and clear through out the whole community, we think that alone would be enough to stop people from taking advantage <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p></p><p>Todd, are you interested in converting PCGen datasets or were you just commenting?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="karianna, post: 3239694, member: 8340"] The area of reading our datasets is a grey area, although from our research into the legalities of it, we _think_ it's perfectly legal to do so :). The legalities around the distribution of the datasets or converted versions of those datasets is better understood. As we stated above, OGL - pretty much go for it, Permissioned - Probably best that you get hold of original IP holder, which we've clearly stated we can help with. Either way yes it would be polite to ask us for permission as well, it's not that hard :). We've already had one nice approach from a commercial entity and we're pretty confident we'll be giving them our whole hearted support and blessing. I'm not going to add any extra legal statement to the one we already made above. But you can understand that we have a massive community that's put in over 6 years of hard work on these datasets. To have someone come along and just use them for their own commercial gain (without our permission) would be be seen as exceedingly nasty (I mean you'd be pretty pissed off if you were us right?). Even _if_ we couldn't do something about it legally (and we'd definitely investigate that option), our dissenting voices would be heard loud and clear through out the whole community, we think that alone would be enough to stop people from taking advantage :). Todd, are you interested in converting PCGen datasets or were you just commenting? [/QUOTE]
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