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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 315287" data-attributes="member: 2572">Re: Re: Re: File type discriminationThat is part of what I was talking about, although it is more than the official site as people here and elsewhere are trading this information.This is one of the things I am talking about. What is the legal difference between file types? If people are encouraged to trade the underling IP what difference does the wrapper make? And Davin’s program program does more than allow for the trading of monster and race proprietary formats, it allows the trading of all db information and its use has been encouraged by all who support the program.Yes WotC does own the IP can use it as it sees fit.  I would have no problem if they made this information available officially at their site. I am not arguing about giving their product a competitive advantage in this manner, in fact if they would officially release this info I would be pleased. What they are doing however is not officially releasing it but encouraging others to input the data themselves and then trade it on the Internet. By doing this they are saying that they are giving up control of the distribution of the information. This goes to my original example of it is OK to reprint and distribute the book, but only if the font is Times New Roman.I had not even considered this, but you bring up a good point. I hope that WotC is at least as thorough as PCGen in acquiring permission to distribute third party material. Until such permissions are granted however it is just as illegal for WotC to allow posting of non-WotC material as it is for PCGen to allow distribution of WotC non-SRD material. Until e-tools allows for the creation of PrCs I don’t foresee them becoming the standard. It was not until IE was able to match Netscape functionality that they won the browser war. As a note to anyone who is trying to decode .rac, .chr, .dll, or .exe portions of the program. This directly violates the license for the program.  As the license states “You may not: ...; (2) modify or prepare derivative works of the Software; ...; (4) design or distribute unauthorized levels; or (5) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software.” If WotC is revoking this portion of the license than great, but until this happens than all third party attempts to add functionality are illegal.  If Davin has official permission from Fluid and WotC great, but I have seen nothing stating that this is the case.</blockquote>

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