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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hollywood" data-source="post: 1118852" data-attributes="member: 7408">No, Scott, it does not impede the open source nature of PCGen.  PCGen is LGPL'd so it can use other libraries or software under similar or closed lisences to do things such as encryption where nothing but the binaries need to be distributed.The data used by PCGen is distributed as seperate packages under different lisences that do not effect the license under which PCGen and its source code are distributed [which btw, can be distributed by anyone, i.e. the so-called PCGen Board, CMP, or even yourself or anyone else; all they must do is obey the LGPL lisence].All of that being said, ONLY if PCGen's source code contains no traces of any OGL'd or proprietary content [which also includes re-interpretations of the game mechanics into computer alogrithms].But really, how many of the users of PCGen truly care about the open source nature of PCGen?  Or are they just happy to have a program that they find useful to use no matter if its closed or open.  If you have issues with possible events upcoming, you can always [its pretty easy to] get a dump of the PCGen source [and OGL'd data] from the SourceForge CVS system and start your own variant of it.Even if the language says that, who cares?  Unless the license owner is going to institute some form of compliance checking for individual users, what and how you use the data or PI or anything else for your own personal use is really up to you.  Once it goes beyond personal use into distribution, even to friends, it may become an issue that might be worth the lisencees attention.  A real world example is all the music trading going on.  Convert those cds from the redbook audio to mp3s and play them all you want.  Convert mp3s into oggs and play those instead.  Use them on all your devices.  Make backups.  All for personal use.  However, once you start distributing that data [the music in redbook, mp3, ogg, wav, au or whatever format] to others you've stepped across the line based on lisences given to you.</blockquote>

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