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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luke" data-source="post: 499893" data-attributes="member: 602">Re: Re: Palm Familiar, legal issues, & possible solutionsIts not exactly a question of scripting. Its a question of any D&D data and mechanics being openly human readable.Scripting is just an easy solution to the hard problem of showing how you calculate the things you do.WotC's position is that they supply the D20 SRD to you as an open "uncopyrighted" piece of work. If you use it and distribute what you do, you need to ensure that you keep the algorithms and data open. You can't have "hidden data" or calculations compiled away into your program.This is the exercise that PCGen, for example, went through (and I think, continue to). They had to ensure that any WotC data and algorithms were openly viewable. This meant expanding the capabilities and the use of their .lst files containing tags.PCGen consumes lots of RAM, and reads in lots of text files when it starts up.This is extremely difficult for a Palm device to do, having very limited RAM, and not particularly fast calculating capabilities (compared to PCs).Thus it is easier for a Palm to have all the data (and especially) algorithms hard-coded into a compiled program, since the compiled program will run faster, and won't rely on some massive amount of code to interpret rules from text files.Unfortunately, that breaks the rules.The rules are pretty tough on Palm devices...</blockquote>