For Approval: BSD License, PostgreSQL Variant

dlw danw6144 at insightbb.com
Thu Oct 11 14:12:48 UTC 2007


>
> 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?
For a nonexclusive copyright licensee under U.S. law "sublicense"  means 
to assign a licensee's
contractual interest / information rights to another person.

The term "relicense" under a nonexclusive license is a mythical term 
invented by open source
advocates and is legally undefined.



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