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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 724933" data-attributes="member: 514">Re: Re: PCGen selloutFrom the front page of <a href="http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com:" target="_blank">http://www.codemonkeypublishing.com:</a>----As for PCGen charging, etc - I'm not too bothered by a smallish, one-off charge.  What bothers me is the claims that the fee will be annual.  But I can't find anything confirming this.I'm also worried about other publishers charging through CMP for their material to be available in PCGen.  This could start to cost me a lot of money.Also, on the PCGen yahoogroup people have stated that the money generated is likely to be used to pay bandwidth charges, yet PCGen is currently hosted on sourceforge.Net, which states on <a href="http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6025&group_id=1:" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6025&group_id=1:</a>*Italics mine...From what I read there, CMP/PCGen don't have to pay for downloads from SourceForge, so if the data remained open they could distribute it there for free.Another point: will CMP be re-coding all of WotC's non-SRC data sets, or will they use the data already typed up in the pre-OGL days of PCGen?  Because, I don't think they should be able to use the old files - they were typed up by many different people, for free, and I don't think it's right for CMP to benefit from that work, nor do I think they "own" it.I actually wonder if the reins of PCGen should now be handed over.  CMP have the responsibility for WotC's datasets, etools patchs, and their new product - what will happen to PCGen when they find their time too stretched?Duncan</blockquote>

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