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Community Use Policy vs. Open Gaming License.
The rules content needs to be OGL to be used in the databases. The CUP affects how the names appear. PathfinderCommunity.net appears to be affiliated with d20pfsrd, which lost the rights to use the CUP when it became a commercial site. The rules content remains OGL regardless, but the use of Golarion-specific names in rules elements (such as named of countries, organizations, or NPCs, etc. in the names and requirements of Feats, Traits, Prestige Classes, etc.) is allowed under the CUP but not under OGL. So d20pfsrd has to re-name content that uses the protected names, and drop requirements that use the protected names.
This leads to occasional frustration for HeroLab users relying on d20pfsrd... they don't realize that the names were altered, and so can't find the d20pfsrd names in HeroLab (because they are present under their 'proper' names). I don't know which names are in the pathfindercommunity.net files.
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