Simplifying Gurps Space world creation

[Lanfranc]

Originally Posted by Brett

Finally, one of the rights of an author under copyright law is not to have his work distributed in a garbled form. This is why I do not distribute my Excel instantiation of the GURPS Space starsystem generator. I couldn't get the spacing on moons to come out right, I corrected some acknowledged but officially uncorrected errata, and I added a few calculations (such as the level of visible illumination) that are not in the original. So I would legally need explicit permission to distribute mine. The above permission only seems to me to apply to a faithful and complete instantiation.

That seems like an overly strict interpretation. After all, you're not distributing Zeigler's and Cambias's GURPS Space itself, which is protected by author's rights; you're distributing your own original and unofficial work which is simply based on the rules in GURPS Space.

As long as it is supplied with the required disclaimers and a bit of documentation, I can't honestly see where the problem would possibly be.