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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record |
Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:32:00 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) |
rjack wrote:
There is no such thing as a "chain of licensing" under the GPL. The GPL is a nonexclusive license and there is no such thing as "sub-licensing"
> under a nonexclusive license. The best you can do is a "transfer of contractual
interest". You can't transfer ownership of copyrights with a nonexclusive license and you can't license what you don't own.
Wrong. The GPL itself explains that there is no sub-licensing. Instead, as a work is conveyed under terms of the GPL, the recipient receives a license from the copyright holders.
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