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<blockquote data-quote="mosat" data-source="post: 3180948" data-attributes="member: 34355">You have obviously not done any dataset coding for PCGen, It is not simply a matter of copy/paste. Yes the text itself should remain unchanged but then consider that PCGen is a tool for manipulating the data and mechanics and then displaying the results, there is a good deal of creativity involved in creating the datasets and there are a variety of different ways it can be coded. PCGen and CMP have separately coded some of the same material (the SRD) and there are creative divergencies in how it is done.It is also a great deal of work. I am wrapping up work on a dataset for Spycraft 2 for PCGen, it has taken hundreds of hours over the last year and a half and I was fortunate to have been supplied with digital copies of the book from the publisher. I know what it takes to create this work and it really is analogous to turning a book into a movie. Well maybe not a movie, but at least a screenplay.Also your CD/MP3 analogy is flawed, you don't have to pay anyone when you make an MP3 from a CD you own and you don't have to pay anyone to make datasets from books you own, you are free to type them in yourself and no one here is saying otherwise.&nbsp; However if you put that MP3 online for others to download you break the law, same with datasets of non-OGL data.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mosat, post: 3180948, member: 34355"] You have obviously not done any dataset coding for PCGen, It is not simply a matter of copy/paste. Yes the text itself should remain unchanged but then consider that PCGen is a tool for manipulating the data and mechanics and then displaying the results, there is a good deal of creativity involved in creating the datasets and there are a variety of different ways it can be coded. PCGen and CMP have separately coded some of the same material (the SRD) and there are creative divergencies in how it is done. It is also a great deal of work. I am wrapping up work on a dataset for Spycraft 2 for PCGen, it has taken hundreds of hours over the last year and a half and I was fortunate to have been supplied with digital copies of the book from the publisher. I know what it takes to create this work and it really is analogous to turning a book into a movie. Well maybe not a movie, but at least a screenplay. Also your CD/MP3 analogy is flawed, you don't have to pay anyone when you make an MP3 from a CD you own and you don't have to pay anyone to make datasets from books you own, you are free to type them in yourself and no one here is saying otherwise. However if you put that MP3 online for others to download you break the law, same with datasets of non-OGL data. [/QUOTE]

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