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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 1570135" data-attributes="member: 18017">Psion, I just followed the link in your sig to the Pact System Doc and noticed this section of its legal notice:Permission to Reference: You may, at your option, include the following text in either marketing materials or a product:“Usable with the The Pact System published by Second World Simulations.” You may also include, as often as you want, the following text in a product:“The abbreviation, 2WPS, is used for the The Pact System, published by Second World Simulations.” If you elect to include either of the above references you must also include the following legal text in a reasonably legible font, point size, and color:“Second World Simulations is a trademark of Steven Palmer Peterson.”This Permission to Reference is aimed at the compatibility provisions of the OGL Section 7, but a similar permission statement could be used by publishers to allow (and benefit from) a direct citation system under the OGL. By specifying an abbreviation that can be used for his trademark, Mr. Peterson seems to have been inspired of Wizard's own steps towards encouraging citation without infringing on trademark (i.e., allowing the use of MM or Core Rulebook III). Unfortunately, Wizards hasn't expanded its system as new sources have been added; XPH isn't officially recognized as the abbreviation for Expanded Psionics Handbook, for example, so it's not clear how to refer to the content of that book without encroachment.Behemoth3's releases will contain a Permission to Reference specifically designed to allow direct source citation. A model document for this purpose will be made available through the SwoRD Project, which will also work to maintain a registry of products which have permitted reference citation.</blockquote>

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