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By this point, there is an awful lot of material published for both Pathfinder and Starfinder. However, all of it is published under the OGL - which Paizo is unlikely to use once the ORC license is finalized.
Which leaves the question how, when, and if older rules material will be made available under the ORC license so that others can use it.
I mean, I think it's a given that the Pathfinder 2E and the Starfinder rules will be released under the ORC license pretty quickly. But what about rules supplements? Or adventure paths and scenarios? Not all of these might be worth the effort of rereleasing them under the new license.
And Pathfinder 1E material probably won't be rereleased under the ORC license at all, since that would require significant editing work - unless it's done as an update to the Pathfinder 2E rules via a crowdfunding campaign (as it has happened with the Kingmaker campaign, for instance).
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Paizo's roadmap will become clear in the weeks and months to come. Thanks for playing Pathfinder and Starfinder.
As a 3pp, I would like to see this happen for a number of reasons/projects I have lined up...
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You can't "unpublish" product under the OGL. Everything would have to be rewritten from the ground up, major NPC's would have to be rewritten, etc.
The Second Coming of Christ is more likely than the entirety of Paizo's back-catalog for the past seven years being republished sans OGL.
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The old stuff's all still compatible.
New stuff, please.