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<blockquote data-quote="Klintus Fang" data-source="post: 409494" data-attributes="member: 3580">All I want to know is where human readable begins and ends.&nbsp; The program I am working on (which may never get finished), can construct a model of a character, with all his stats, etc., etc. and will be able eventually to get all the rules outlined in the SRD correct.&nbsp; But the program itself will contain ZERO SRD or even OGC material.&nbsp; It will simply be a generic &quot;engine for modelling the rules of a role-playing game&quot;, but it will assume nothing and will contain nothing other than generic data structures and algorithms for combining those data structures together to build a model of a rule system.&nbsp; But the rules for said system will be completely and totally contained within an external, human readable, text or xml file; a file completely separate from the binary.In my view, if I do it this way, the source code for the binary is completely and totally not subject to any OGL restriction.&nbsp; It is only the data file it uses to build the model of the DnD rule system that is subject to the restrictions.So, what is WoTC's policy if I completely decouple the binary from the content in this way?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Klintus Fang, post: 409494, member: 3580"] All I want to know is where human readable begins and ends. The program I am working on (which may never get finished), can construct a model of a character, with all his stats, etc., etc. and will be able eventually to get all the rules outlined in the SRD correct. But the program itself will contain ZERO SRD or even OGC material. It will simply be a generic "engine for modelling the rules of a role-playing game", but it will assume nothing and will contain nothing other than generic data structures and algorithms for combining those data structures together to build a model of a rule system. But the rules for said system will be completely and totally contained within an external, human readable, text or xml file; a file completely separate from the binary. In my view, if I do it this way, the source code for the binary is completely and totally not subject to any OGL restriction. It is only the data file it uses to build the model of the DnD rule system that is subject to the restrictions. So, what is WoTC's policy if I completely decouple the binary from the content in this way? [/QUOTE]

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