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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jerik" data-source="post: 8899514" data-attributes="member: 7039785">Paizo can't unilaterally update the license, if it's owned by a third party, no, but they could make some argument about being able to withdraw Pathfinder from the license, and say the license no longer applies to them, and that nobody can use the Pathfinder SRD with the ORC going forward.  Depending on the terms of the license, they may not actually have legal standing to do that, but according to pemerton and others, Wizards of the Coast probably doesn't actually have legal standing to stop future use of the OGL 1.0(a), and look what's going on anyway.(Of course, that wouldn't affect any of the other RPGs not relying on the Pathfinder SRD that are licensed under the ORC, except insofar as in the worst case scenario it might cast the irrevocability of the ORC into doubt, but I don't think that's the point here.)I think I'm considerably less pessimistic than pemerton about this matter, both because I think it's highly unlikely Paizo would try that, and because I think with a better written, more explicitly irrevocable license there would be fewer people taking it seriously if they did, but I think I do see the point they're making.(Also, of course, IANAL; I'm trying to make some clarifications to the arguments here as I understand them but it's the more legally experienced types like pemerton and S'mon and bcmcdaniel and Steel_Wind who know what they're talking about and I'm not trying to put words in their mouths.)</blockquote>

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