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Feature request / question - closed generators

Hannu

Mythras Guru
Gold WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
I am using commercial material for my own use in my generators. I have rather lot of them. I might be able to get permission to use them within campaign logger generators if the "source" of the generator is not available to everybody / openly / to the user.

The idea could be: give campaign logger user access just to the generator and provide a way for user to know that it is used with permission and based on certain license. No Json source would be visible to the user. the creator would have possibility to update the Json source and then would be available for the users as "a binary" from the user interface.

Within the Json would be marker for example in the explanation tag that it is used with permission/license

What do you think?
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Some time ago Craig Bogun published a generator based on Fate aspect lists:
https://plus.google.com/+CraigBogun/posts/E8VUQd7QgSc

For that purpose, license information was added to the generator template:
https://github.com/open-campaign-logger/generator-library/blob/evesala/json/_template_generator.json

If you want to keep the source files to yourself, one option would be publishing the generator on a Wordpress installation using this plugin:
https://github.com/open-campaign-logger/generator-wordpress-plugin

An easy solution would be to upload the generator files to the generator server where they could be accessed by anyone with {lib:} calls, but I’m not sure about the legal side on that. You would probably need to take care of the license display right in the generator code, which could be a bit messy, unless an optional-only display is OK by the copyright holder.

Alternatively, it might be possible to set up a separate generator library for closed content, but that would require some code changes, so it’s not an immediately available option.
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
In my opinion that could go hand in hand with the YAML migration. The migration would be best handled with some directory reorganization, which means that the generator server should be able to fetch content from multiple locations. The licensed generator storage could be implemented as a byproduct of this.

But this is really @JochenL ’s call.
 

JochenL

CL Byte Sprite
Staff member
Adamantium WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Gamer Lifestyle
Borderland Explorer
What about a "Publish" button. The generator stays in your private space but is publicly usable - it just delivers results, though. The source of the generator stays hidden on the server.
 

Hannu

Mythras Guru
Gold WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
What about a "Publish" button. The generator stays in your private space but is publicly usable - it just delivers results, though. The source of the generator stays hidden on the server.
That would be excellent. That is the way we handle the generated stuff in Mythras Encounter Generator.
 

Hannu

Mythras Guru
Gold WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Some indication that this has been published needed for both consumer and publisher.
 

JochenL

CL Byte Sprite
Staff member
Adamantium WoA
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
Gamer Lifestyle
Borderland Explorer
That would be excellent. That is the way we handle the generated stuff in Mythras Encounter Generator.
Feel free to add a story in Jira!
 

ELF

Generator Sage
Wizard of Story
Wizard of Combat
There probably has to be an Epic as well to cover automatic collection, publishing and updating of a generator index as well. :)
 
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