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Hello, I'm inaugurating my account on this forum to ask a couple clarifications regarding the state of open source System Reference Documents (SRD) and existing databases allowing fellow non-english-speaking players to actually play Pathfinder-RPG.

Firstly, can you explicitely confirm that as of now, no active licence supports the use of rule content that include proper nouns, like say, PF2e's deities profiles and PF1e's regional exclusive character options ?

If yes, does that mean anyone planning on creating (more realistically maintaining, at that point) a srd based on the OGL/ORC must rename those options *and* rely on the Compatibility Licence in order to include them in their work, to kind of act like it's the original option without actually naming it properly ?

Secondly, as the main contributor on the main french PF1e srd, do I have to scrap 15 years of hard benevolent job if I want to keep expanding on it, or should I rely on your french partner (Black Book Editions) and their own content licenses (which as of today still allows me to use proper nouns with their translation) ?

Thridly, you mentioned the team working freely on the PF2e system for FoundryVTT is not affected by this. Is it because of a special licence similar to what the team behind Archive of Nethys has regarding proper nouns usage, InDesign illustration files, and your explicit validation ? Or is it more of an agreement ? Either way, should the people maintaining other languages for the PF2e system on FoundryVTT contact you in order to be "in the loop" with these changes ? If so, how are we/they supposed to do that ?

Lastly, are you willing to include other languages to the Archive of Nethys, or allow other sites the same rights this site has to render your game freely available internationally ?