For Approval: BSD License, PostgreSQL Variant

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>  /From:/ "Michael Tiemann" <tiemann at opensource.org> /Date:/ Thu, 11
>  Oct 2007 19:41:17 -0400 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:41:17 -0400 Licenses like
>  the SimPL explicitly permit relicensing under the GPL.
>
>  M
A nonexclusive copyright license like the SimPL license may explicitly
permit "relicensing" . . .  the problem is the Copyright Act doesn't allow
"relicensing". A sublicense concerning a nonexclusive licensee is a transfer
of his contractual interests / information rights.

Only the *owner* of a copyrighted work has the *exclusive* right to
*authorize* (license) his work -- this fact excludes nonexclusive licensees
from "relicensing" since a nonexclusive licensee has no ownership rights.

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