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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 852507" data-attributes="member: 2013">The point of the OGL was to "cross-pollenate" the d20 pool - and I wouldn't put everything in one BIG file on the website.  I'm not that stupid.  (More on my vision of structure for the site in a moment)Well, 24 months seems a very safe amount not to hurt anyone's sales.  Keep in mind that even restricting it to 24-month-old products means I would have almost a year's worth of products to input.  For all I know, the de facto age based on entry lag time might get BIGGER!The ISP I am currently using provides unmetered bandwidth at a fixed cost provided the site does not serve (a) porn or (b) MP3s.  Since I'm not doing so, I'm okay.  Oh, and I don't intend to serve *all* the OGC at once.   (again, see below)Number one, "diligence."  People would know that my site is running on a watertight OGL policy, shielding them from legal troubles.  Frex, if I used something from FFE and had included Drawmij because they had, I'd been worried right now.  With a site that the publishers themselves contribute to, it is established as the place to go to get "pure" OGC content unmuddied by other stuff and possible legal problems.Number two, "structure."  I don't intend to serve one massive document - I would instead try to serve content in more "bite-size" pieces.  And with the architecture I currently have in place, I can make pretty small to pretty large pieces.  Just as the SRD is not all stored together, but instead cut into 100 smaller files, I could serve this in smaller pieces.For example, you might go to the Spells page.  You might then choose "Wizard" spells.  You might then choose "Level 2" spells.  You might then choose "Rays."  You would then get the first 10 Level 2 spells that are Rays displayed on the screen, with proper OGL and Section 15 at the bottom.  You could then click on any one spell to get just that spell with its section 15.  Or you could click to get the next ten spells... by limiting it to "ten at a time" in this manner, I'm not serving thousands of spells at once, keeping bandwidth problems down and making it a bit harder to copy/paste en masse.Basically, IMO, the trick is "make sure you cut everything into bite-sized pieces" instead of putting whole books out there for people to download.Again, I think nearly all publishers write on the computer in the first instance these days and send electronic files to the publisher.  If the d20 publishers are on board, OCRing is not necessary.Or spells?  Or NPCs?  Or anything else?The simple answer: the company may either declare the name OGC or I'll strip out the old name and put a new (OGC) one in.  I would want NOTHING that is not OGC "muddying" this database.--The Sigil</blockquote>

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