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Fuzion : What kind of license?

Started by Scaredy Squirrel, December 04, 2008, 08:47:56 PM

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Scaredy Squirrel

December 04, 2008, 08:47:56 PM
Hi all!

Seeing some games that are based on the Fuzion rules by R. Talsorian, I was wondering about the kind of licensing system it uses. Looking through the PDF, I see it is copyrighted, nothing more. Am I missing something? Games like Artesia and Lightspeed use this system and there are also a lot of free games on the Web using it. Did they all have to get the rights from Talsorian and pay for it (not the free ones, of course)?

Anyway, if you know something about this, feel free to enlighten me!

Thanks!

Scaredy Squirrel

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December 06, 2008, 11:22:28 PM
:sleeping:

Well... This is a pretty silent thread. Anyway, I gathered from different publications that it's not under some kind of open or free license. It's a good old "you use, you pay" license, so...

Spike

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December 09, 2008, 07:52:13 PM
Eh. I just saw this. As an older had with Fuzion I'll try to work it out for you. Its been a while and shit has changed, but I seem to recall that Fuzion was open license before there was such a thing.

Of course, I also know that a few folks that were making some serious bones with freeware for Fuzion have since had to change their operation policies as R.Talsorian made some moves.

My quick advice, in the lack of a large Fuzion crowd here is to find a Fuzion webring (easy enough) and ask them.  You have an advantage there with Fuzion having a fairly large internet presence/community compared to many games.
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