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If you buy a horse with a license.. and its the only copy they have ( 1 license on 1 Foundation ) will they loose that license?

To put it another way: you need a license to drive a car. You can only get that license from the government. Selling your car does not sell someone your driver's license.

No. That is completely incorrect and has never been the way the game works. I will see if someone else can explain because I don't understand why people are confused.

Personal experience-- I once put a copy of mushroom on a foundation horse a while ago and didn't do much with it. He's aged out now and there's no mushroom genes left in my herd but I still have the license

When you buy a license gene and add it to a foundation, you receive a copy of the license. In order for someone to purchase the horse from you, they must already have a copy of license. Money is exchanged, the horse transfers. Seller and buyer still have their individual copies of the license. Two licensed players were involved in the transaction. No licenses are created through the transfer.

When the Random Acts of Gifting (RAoG) and Gift Exchange (GE) come into play, foundation horses can be transferred to people without a license, effectively giving the giftee the license. In order for no licenses to be created through this process, the license is removed from the gifter and transferred with the horse.

The RAoG and GE system will notify you if you are about to transfer your last/sole copy of a license away.

Thank you so much to those who helped with explanations. I appreciate the assistance. :)