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<blockquote data-quote="Nine Hands" data-source="post: 1182788" data-attributes="member: 4919">I think that using the data is any product is really a good idea.&nbsp; I have written a handful of sources in my time working on PCGen and I could care less what people do with them.&nbsp; Basically its OGL, that is the way it works.&nbsp; If there is a transform sheet ever made, I will be more than willing to use it in both PCGen and Campaign Suite.&nbsp; I personally would love to see a movement for dataset creation, apart from the individual programs themselves.&nbsp; The data monkies would create datasets to specification, release them under OGL and other programs could import them when and if they wanted to.&nbsp; Of course, licensed data sets would have to be handled by some sort of contract (like CMP is doing, they seem to have things under control at this time).Also remember that the quote was from one BoD member, not the entire BoD.&nbsp; Actually I would be surprised if the BoD voted to lock down the data, it goes against EVERYTHING that this project stood for in the beginning AND would make problems for integrating stuff from GMGen (they would have to be let in on this secret encryption method).&nbsp; In the end, encryption is pointless since the PCGen code is freely available.&nbsp; I just don't see it happening anytime.&nbsp; Now for CMP, they still have a similar problem.&nbsp; To make the data usable by PCGen they have to at some point unencrypt the stuff.&nbsp; Its a total PITA and IMHO not worth the time to implement it.And again, thanks for the beer <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nine Hands, post: 1182788, member: 4919"] I think that using the data is any product is really a good idea. I have written a handful of sources in my time working on PCGen and I could care less what people do with them. Basically its OGL, that is the way it works. If there is a transform sheet ever made, I will be more than willing to use it in both PCGen and Campaign Suite. I personally would love to see a movement for dataset creation, apart from the individual programs themselves. The data monkies would create datasets to specification, release them under OGL and other programs could import them when and if they wanted to. Of course, licensed data sets would have to be handled by some sort of contract (like CMP is doing, they seem to have things under control at this time). Also remember that the quote was from one BoD member, not the entire BoD. Actually I would be surprised if the BoD voted to lock down the data, it goes against EVERYTHING that this project stood for in the beginning AND would make problems for integrating stuff from GMGen (they would have to be let in on this secret encryption method). In the end, encryption is pointless since the PCGen code is freely available. I just don't see it happening anytime. Now for CMP, they still have a similar problem. To make the data usable by PCGen they have to at some point unencrypt the stuff. Its a total PITA and IMHO not worth the time to implement it. And again, thanks for the beer :) [/QUOTE]

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