For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License
dlw
danw6144 at insightbb.com
Sun Sep 16 19:00:42 UTC 2007
"Actually, according to the 9th circuit, exclusive rights are not
transferrable or sublicenseable either unless otherwise stated (IANAL,
but see Gardner v. Nike, a case which appears to have surprised a lot of
lawyers at the time). It seems to me that the safe thing to do is to be
skeptical of *any* implied sublicense right."
Absolutely correct. I have never seen an "open source" license that
wasn't nonexclusive -- an exclusive license transfer flies in the face
of the open source definition for a copyright license.
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