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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smetzger" data-source="post: 1118654" data-attributes="member: 1230">Yes and No.  The stuff that is released under OGL and you have permission to use the PI, is easy.  Now do you include any additional legal stuff that says something like?"This PI is only allowed to be used in PCGen(I think you would need to mention a specific distro).  If you load the text of the PI into any other program its illegal, even if you don't use the program to distribute these files to other users"As I am sure you know you can't place any additional restrictions on OGC, so the above would specifically have to mention PI.Now on to the pending WOTC files.  These have no OGC and they have no PI.  The pages on codemonkey, where these items are being sold, make no reference to restricting the end user from using them in whatever program he wants to use them for.     My understanding is that CMP is unsure if such a restriction will be made, but they are currently opening dialog up with WOTC to decide if there should be one.Keep in mind that any such license may impede the true open source nature of PCGen.  If the license allows any program that uses the PCGen code to use the data then its kind of week, why not just let eevryone use it.  If the license says only such and such distro of PCGen is authorized to read this data; then it nips the open source nature of PCGen.  Sure its still open source but you can't really take the code make some modifications and then re-release it yourself, instead of folding it back into the 'official' distro.  Thanks,Scott</blockquote>

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