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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dmccoy1693" data-source="post: 4783625" data-attributes="member: 51747">My company, Jon Brazer Enterprises, publishes material for Traveller on a 3rd party basis for Mongoose Traveller.  We use the OGL in the same fashion that Paizo uses the OGL to publish their Pathfinder Adventure Paths.  But Paizo is currently a 3.5 3pp while my company is a Traveller 3pp.   So changing the term to OGL publisher would provide no distinction between Paizo and JBE as we are both OGL publishers.  Infact it would remove a layer of distinction.  Example:  When Paizo releases Pathfinder RPG later this year, they will no longer be a 3pp.  They will be a principle publisher.  But their rules are OGL and their rules book will have an OGL in the back.  So they will still be an OGL publisher, but not a 3pp. Then there is case of companies like Chaosium.  Chaosium publishes the BRP, a non OGL game.  But they license the BRP to other companies.  Those companies are third party publishers of Chaosium.  But they do not use the OGL.   OGL publisher =/= Third Party Publisher.  Sometimes they happen to be the same thing, but that is not necessarily always the case.</blockquote>