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<blockquote data-quote="Davin" data-source="post: 315745" data-attributes="member: 1183">My apologies for mis-interpreting his complaint.&nbsp; I thought he was complaining about their refusing to allow any WotC information in lst files.&nbsp; Still, it sounds to me like PCGen is going to get access to &quot;most&quot; information along the way somewhere -- I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it goes.Well, I haven't seen anywhere that WotC was officially pronouncing that stuff as legal.&nbsp; I just haven't seen anywhere they were explicitly prohibited.&nbsp; And of course PCGen itself enjoyed this situation for many months before being asked to conform to the rules.&nbsp; I don't see how this is much different, even treating them as &quot;equal&quot; when they aren't quite IP-wise.And just for the record (in case there are any lawyers watching), I've mentioned in a number of posts that I think it's a violation of copyright to be republishing stuff out of the official books without permission and I don't recommend or condone it (despite having written the program that permits it).Actually, I'd considered writing some kind of low-level editor for that but it's waaaay on down the line of importance, and the problem may solve itself before I get there.&nbsp; &lt;innocent <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> look&gt;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Davin, post: 315745, member: 1183"] My apologies for mis-interpreting his complaint. I thought he was complaining about their refusing to allow [b]any[/b] WotC information in lst files. Still, it sounds to me like PCGen is going to get access to "most" information along the way somewhere -- I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it goes. Well, I haven't seen anywhere that WotC was officially pronouncing that stuff as legal. I just haven't seen anywhere they were explicitly prohibited. And of course PCGen itself enjoyed this situation for many months before being asked to conform to the rules. I don't see how this is much different, even treating them as "equal" when they aren't quite IP-wise. And just for the record (in case there are any lawyers watching), I've mentioned in a number of posts that I think it's a violation of copyright to be republishing stuff out of the official books without permission and I don't recommend or condone it (despite having written the program that permits it). Actually, I'd considered writing some kind of low-level editor for that but it's waaaay on down the line of importance, and the problem may solve itself before I get there. <innocent :rolleyes: look> [/QUOTE]

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