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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nine Hands" data-source="post: 1233941" data-attributes="member: 4919">Just remember that PCGen is a OGL complaint piece of software.  Therefore it MUST comply by the OGL.  The OGL specifically states that you can not include PI without permission.  Since most of the WotC books are not even OGL, they can not legally be included.  This is where CMP comes in.  They have the legal permission to make WotC data sets.  On top of this Bryan has stated many times that is a company does not want PCGen to include a specific product (OGL or not) that PCGen will not.  This was stated back at the beginning of the project and IMO still holds true to this day.  WotC asked PCGen to remove thier products and the PCGen team snapped into action.  Both as a show of good faith and to be legally compliant.  Somewhere in those discussions CMP was born (I am not certain of this, but I have been involved in enough PCGen discussions with Bryan, Mynex and Lone Jedi to understand what has gone on).  I find it amusing that people complained that the datasets are not available freely.  Whoever is creating them is putting thier own personal time and effort into the creation of these sets.  They are NOT easy and it is time consuming.  I don't have the money yet to purchase any CMP data sets, but I plan on buying when I get some capital.  Considering that you could get 6 or 7 data sets for the price of a book, just cut back on your RPG purchases for a little while.  Lastly, the permission to use WotC material (and these data sets are pretty verbose from what I have heard) is NOT FREE.  It had to have cost a bundle to get WotC's permission.  This puts CMP in the same boat as Kenzer Co and Soverign Press.  They have to sell a product just to recoup the cost of licensing, web hosting, etc.  Heck, maybe they can even make a profit while their at it.</blockquote>

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