Post originally by Robert Donoghue at 2004-03-31 07:13:22
Converted from Phorums BB System

Steal away, that's what it's for!

Ok, fudgless fate's a little complicated, but here's the breakdown. Fred & I would very much liek to open FATE up, nut as written, it has the existing (albeit small) limitations of fudge distribution. We're in the final round sof putting out a version that uses a success counting mechanicbut keep smost of the other stuff. The original plan was tot ake that version (which has a lot of refinements) and release it under the creative commons lisence.

All this changed a few days back when Ann Dupuis announced that fudge was goign to go with some sort of Open lisence, probably OGL. We're still going to finish up the fudgeless version just because it's mostly done, but we're then goign to swing it back to Fudge and release it under the same lisence as fudge so it becomes open content.

In the end, we like to think that most of the ideas in Fate are fairly portable, so we're going to try to do some stuff with other OGL products to try to present it as a layer that can be added to other games for those who want it.

Anyway, I hope that answers your question.