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*sigh* My position on this has been unwavering from the begining of this thread. This sort of interoperability is positive, healthy, and desirable. I (once again) have no beef with TR and CS, and the desire to make it work alongside with pcgen, using the user's data. As far as the lst files...

That is a beta release. This has been corrected to the best of my knowledge in the upcoming 5.4 production release. At least they re-format it. They take the information, and give it a new presentation. That is far better then just taking someone else's files, and publishing those as your...

ok, quick explaination: 1) I know that Twin Rose wants to interoperate with PCGen, and I think that is a wonderful thing. Interoperability is fine, and besides, it's the user's data, so who are we to say what they do with it. 2) I am under the impression that some packages ARE looking into...

There are of course ways around this. If there was an agreed upon standard, and all peopel who used it contributed time and energy to the data file creation, IMHO that is a different story altogether..... Contributing something while one is taking from the jar is really a different beast...

well, if the author is using the lst file that is encoded by a volunteer to make money without contributing anything back, then well... yes. The content is still free. and the author can type their own up. Look at it this way. If I took a photocopy of a few pages from a book from company X...

Well, people do deal directly with the netbook people, and don't always go down to each copyright holder. Not to mention, the netbook stuff explicitly has given permission for people to use it in other OGL products. I could be wrong, but I even seem to recall a statement that one needn't...

it's not a weapon I would choose to use lighly, but it's one of the only offensive tools an open source project has when people abuse it (and I'm not saying anyone has abused it yet). I think that to some degree you are right, but with careful programming, and cleaning up of code, it's been...

Ok, this is a whopper, I'll hit it piece by piece. Correct. GMGen is in the same position. True True, although the D20 licens is pretty unimportant to this conversation. A person may also except small bits to be used ina 'fair use' manor via copyright law. True True true, although...

Actually, I would prefer not to target this specifically at anyone, instead at the trend. But, if you read this thread from beginning to end, you will see at least one person who is in charge of a closed application that stated they intend to do so. Devon Jones GMGen Regent PCGen BoD yadda...

No one is currently. But there have been multiple packages that have announced that they intend to. Devon Jones GMGen Regent PCGen BoD

Yeah, you would have to take that up with CMP. I have no opinion about this. RedHat doesn't leach, RedHat contributes thousands upon thousands of man hours to hundreds of open source projects. All they code they publish is under the GPL (or similar licenses). RedHat is an outstanding member...

I don't represent CMP, I don't know anything about CMP other then what is officially stated, and frankly, I'm not particularly thrilled at how divisive the CMP issue has been with the community. That being said, I am not going to comment on any of your CMP issues, because they have very little...

It's the OGL. Since the data sets are coverd by the OGL, the OGL gives pcgen, and Wizards of the Coast certain rights. One of those rights is the ability to deny another company the ability to claim combatablilty with your product (as I understand it). Also, in general, (once again, my...

GMGen perspective on the lst file dispute ok, here is the deal - and this is my personal opinion as the maintainer of GMGen. It does not represent the rest of the PCGen BoD, or the pcgen project. What Twin Rose wants to do (as far as I can tell) is take the output of pcgen (which is the...

GMGen 3.3Pre5 has been released. Project home: http://gmgen.sourceforge.net/ Download: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gmgen Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen-gmgen/ GMGen is a Java-based GM's tool that works on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, etc). GMGen is a tool for...

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GMGen Not that I'm biased, but I recommend GMGen. I just posted release 3.3pre4 at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gmgen. Currently it does the following: 1) Random names for people/places/things. 2) Generate encounters from PCGen sources 3) Track combat using PCGen characters, or...

GMGen 3.3Pre4 has been released. Project home: http://gmgen.sourceforge.net/ Download: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gmgen Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen-gmgen/ GMGen is a Java-based GM's tool that works on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, etc). GMGen is a tool for...

GMGen 3.3Pre3 has been released. Project home: http://gmgen.sourceforge.net/ Download: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gmgen Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen-gmgen/ GMGen is a Java-based GM's tool that works on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, etc). GMGen is a tool for...

GMGen 3.3Pre2 has been released. Project home: http://gmgen.sourceforge.net/ Download: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gmgen Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen-gmgen/ GMGen is a Java-based GM's tool that works on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, etc). GMGen is a tool for...