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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 316048" data-attributes="member: 2572">Re: Re: File type discriminationThe issue I am looking at is whether by encouraging the free trading of IP in the form of e-tools files, WotC is is forefitting the right to complain if that same material is then traded in a different format. Yes this is a copyright issue, but I am still hoping to get an answer.Yes they wish to be compliant so that there can be no legal issue with thier use of SRD material as well as other OGL material that they have recieved permission to distribute. Until PCGen is OGL/d20 compliant they risk being shutdown. My question is for when PCGen is compliant whether or not users will be able to freely trade the non-SRD material that WotC is now making freely availible in a different file format. While I do not ever expect PCGen to officialy distribute non-SRD material without proper legal permission, currently This board and other sites actively shut down the distribution of the non-SRD lst files that are availible while allowing the distribution of the same material in e-tools format.Yes, absolutely (except the teapot part). In fact there is not even a question of whether a user can input the material themselves. The problem comes for people like myself and others who do not have the time and/or ability to make the changes ourselves, but would still like to have access to this information in a character generator program.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brown Jenkin, post: 316048, member: 2572"] [b]Re: Re: File type discrimination[/b] The issue I am looking at is whether by encouraging the free trading of IP in the form of e-tools files, WotC is is forefitting the right to complain if that same material is then traded in a different format. Yes this is a copyright issue, but I am still hoping to get an answer. Yes they wish to be compliant so that there can be no legal issue with thier use of SRD material as well as other OGL material that they have recieved permission to distribute. Until PCGen is OGL/d20 compliant they risk being shutdown. My question is for when PCGen is compliant whether or not users will be able to freely trade the non-SRD material that WotC is now making freely availible in a different file format. While I do not ever expect PCGen to officialy distribute non-SRD material without proper legal permission, currently This board and other sites actively shut down the distribution of the non-SRD lst files that are availible while allowing the distribution of the same material in e-tools format. Yes, absolutely (except the teapot part). In fact there is not even a question of whether a user can input the material themselves. The problem comes for people like myself and others who do not have the time and/or ability to make the changes ourselves, but would still like to have access to this information in a character generator program. [/QUOTE]

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