Re: Computer Game GURPS
What is GURPS?
Is it a coherent set of game mechanics for creating, adventuring and advancing characters?
Or is it a logo and a name that fans associate with fun and goods times, the use of which will cause them to gravitate towards the OP's product?
The later is definitely very illegal.
But while I'm not a lawyer, I don't believe there's anything illegal about using other people's game mechanics wholesale (except for the "card tap" thing in collectible games), as long as you make up your own product name and don't use theirs anywhere. Doing so is still intellectually dishonest, and failing to try to make any improvements on the stolen set of game mechanics is distinctly feeble. But sadly, those kinds of crimes don't get people's rear ends in jail (or in buzzing chairs).
Note also that using other people's game mechanics, for making a computer game, without consulting with those other people, means that you have to understand the game mechanics to a great depth, in order to make an at least decent game out of it.
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