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<blockquote data-quote="Leopold" data-source="post: 285518" data-attributes="member: 758">but it is freeware and it is opensource silly! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> . anyone can come along and take the pcgen information and say ohhhh make it into software to code how to program a toaster or anything. Anyone can take the data in the .lst files and use it for whatever purposes they want. Will it do them any good? probably not. It's all kept as bland and blasee as possible to make sure that the IP is protected for the publishers. If someone wants access to the code and wants to alter it or change it, like any other application on sourceforge or built&nbsp; on the GPL platform, all they have to do is give the PCGen team credit on it and they can alter it to their hearts content. Heck WOTC could've taken pcgen, slapped a pretty gui on it and sold it as E-Tools for all we care. That is the price and beauty of Open Licencisng like Linux has.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leopold, post: 285518, member: 758"] but it is freeware and it is opensource silly! :) . anyone can come along and take the pcgen information and say ohhhh make it into software to code how to program a toaster or anything. Anyone can take the data in the .lst files and use it for whatever purposes they want. Will it do them any good? probably not. It's all kept as bland and blasee as possible to make sure that the IP is protected for the publishers. If someone wants access to the code and wants to alter it or change it, like any other application on sourceforge or built on the GPL platform, all they have to do is give the PCGen team credit on it and they can alter it to their hearts content. Heck WOTC could've taken pcgen, slapped a pretty gui on it and sold it as E-Tools for all we care. That is the price and beauty of Open Licencisng like Linux has. [/QUOTE]

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