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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soulcatcher" data-source="post: 1181933" data-attributes="member: 5940">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 opinion, not the BoD) no one seems to have a problem with other software reading in our final product - character sheets.  That's USER data.  Just like reading an MS Word Document in OpenOffice - USER data.  We don't own that data, and we never claimed to.What bothers people is when another program picks up our source code (cause the lst files are essentially a mini-programming language) and then tries to put it in their program, and then attempts to generate income from that.How would you feel Todd if someone got ahold of the DM's Familiar source, and used parts of it to make another app, and then charged people for it - you would be pretty pissed, I'm sure.  Simply put, it's the same thing for us, EXCEPT that we give our application away for free, and we give the source away under a license that allows people to give something back to the OPEN roleplaying community.Hey - we are the ones, along with some other projects like OpenRPG that put our time, energy, and sometimes money into creating programs for the roleplaying community, and we are doing it without asking for compensation.  (I'm not CMP, and neither are the vast majority of people involved with pcgen - nor is ANYONE who is involved with GMGen.)  We do this for the love of it, and for the love of gaming.  If you have a problem with those motives, fine - but I think that gives us at least a little credibility.Devon JonesGMGen RegentPCGen BoD</blockquote>

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