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<span style="white-space: pre;">> /From:/ "Michael Tiemann"
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tiemann@opensource.org"><tiemann@opensource.org></a> /Date:/ Thu, 11 <br>
> Oct 2007 19:41:17 -0400 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:41:17 -0400 Licenses
like<br>
> the SimPL explicitly permit relicensing under the GPL.<br>
> <br>
> M</span><br>
A nonexclusive copyright license like the SimPL license may explicitly<br>
permit "relicensing" . . . the problem is the Copyright Act doesn't
allow<br>
"relicensing". A sublicense concerning a nonexclusive licensee is a
transfer<br>
of his contractual interests / information rights.<br>
<br>
Only the *owner* of a copyrighted work has the *exclusive* right to<br>
*authorize* (license) his work -- this fact excludes nonexclusive
licensees<br>
from "relicensing" since a nonexclusive licensee has no ownership
rights.<br>
<br>
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