New Data? about 5e-database

[ogregoire]

What data are you speaking about? Everything published in Volo's Guide to Monsters for instance? Or Xhanatar's Guide to Everything?

Those are books that contain proprietary content. This repo provides the SRD in a convenient format. The SRD is a part of D&D that is freely (as in free speech) available to everyone, so this repo was made on that assumption. Adding new faces monsters and such that aren't present in the SRD cannot be done if the data comes from proprietary sources such as D&D books.

So, no, it would not be OK to add that data.

[JonesiBlitz]

Free speech? Hahaha

[benjaminapetersen]

Agree, this should stay strictly SRD for all kinds of copyright reasons.

On that, anyone know where the original data came from? I'm how these JSON files were first generated.

[bagelbits]

You'd have to ask @adrpadua, though they are difficulty to get a hold of.

[benjaminapetersen]

Not sure if he is still interested in owning this repo, or if the "primary" status could be moved to someone more actively maintaining (@bagelbits& @ogregoire seem reasonable candidates as the majority of recent PRs are theirs)

[bagelbits]

I'll ask him.

[bagelbits]

So sounds like I might be getting the API and database repos transferred to me. However, this also means that the current API is going to be taken down and I'll have to host the site myself.

[benjaminapetersen]

I don't know if there is anyone depending on the current running site or if that matters.

I imagine it would self-host via github pages, its all front-end files at this point. Just thinking out loud.

[bagelbits]

I'm going to see if there is any traffic running on the page. But spinning up my own version shouldn't be too bad. Especially if I snag the domain as well.

[bagelbits]

Closing since both repos have been transferred.