For Approval: BSD License, PostgreSQL Variant

Shriramana Sharma samjnaa at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 12:47:22 UTC 2007


Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> 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"

I understood Mr Tiemann to mean that you can take code under the BSDL 
and put it under the GPL but not the other way around. The terms 
"sublicense" and "relicense" are synonyms, I presume?

Shriramana Sharma.



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