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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d20books" data-source="post: 1231441" data-attributes="member: 11487">My SINGLE post, email me off-forums if you want to continueWhile I call it a schism, it is not really going to break up PCGen.  Both sides will agree to disagree and some small changes will occur to accommodate both sides, but the project will go on.I agree that there is a conflict of interest.  I'm in the process of creating a non-profit organization that will act as a free distribution point as a counter-weight to CMP.  One of the PCGen Doc Monkeys is willing to sit down and address my concerns over a procedural document about how third party organizations interacts with the PCGen governing body.  Partly, this was to help the non-profit but also to outline and draw clear lines between PCGen and CMP.  I cannot get "Merton_Monk" to even admit that CMP is a third-party organization.  I specifically want to sit down with Merton and the Doc Monkey so that this can be resolved.  It doesn't look like it is going to happen.The original blow-up stems from a bunch of issues, but the last straw was the PCGen BoD claiming that all LST files were theirs by virtue that they were PCGen files.  Donating the files is one thing.  Once they are donated, they are PCGen's.  Taking the files before they are given is theft.  Check out the meeting log.  Very revealing.At present, I'm trying to creat the non-profit that will be registered with the IRS as such.  That would mean that all donations would be tax deductible.  As a legal entity (which PCGen is not), we would be able to work out formal arrangements with the various parties involved.  I believe that it is the only way to do things to make the files available for the PCGen users (for free), keep the LST Monkeys that do the files secure and making new LST files for the community, and also give the publishers another outlet for their OGC.I have the by-laws for the non-profit on my <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/d20books/" target="_blank">D20books Yahoo Group</a>.  There seems to be a problem with me putting a particular PCGen Board member on the sheet.  He seems to be getting harassed now by the various PCGen powers that be because they now see him as a traitor now too.  All the names, including mine, are preliminary and speculative placeholders for now.  The other thing to note about the by-laws is how its govering body is an elected body and how the community is encouraged to participate in things, even if just to be witness to everything to make sure it is all on the up-and-up.  Even a bunch of the CMP and PCGen BoD could be elected to the new non-profit if the community so desired.  I set things up so no one side in the schism had control and the community would decide things.Again, I'm still a PCGen user and everyone on all sides of the argument are still PCGen users.  It is why we are there arguing about it all.  If we didn't give a darn, we would have just left quietly and said "screw-it" and left everyone to their own devices.</blockquote>

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