For Approval: BSD License, PostgreSQL Variant

Alexander Terekhov alexander.terekhov at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 09:44:54 UTC 2007


On 10/11/07, Michael Tiemann <tiemann at opensource.org> wrote:
[...]
> Licenses like the GPL (versions 2 and 3) are cohort sinks: they permit
> others to relicense under their terms

Huh? What do you mean by "relicense", Mr. Tiemann?

GPLv3:

"Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10 makes it unnecessary. ... the
recipient automatically receives a license from the original
licensors"

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

So please elaborate. TIA.

regards,
alexander.

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