[License-review] Sublicensing

[John Cowan]

Pamela Chestek scripsit:

> I believe the difference will be whether the downstream recipient is
> obliged to satisfy the covenants of the license versus the conditions.

That seems right, but the usual presumption by open-source licensors
(whether consciously or not) is that they are all conditions and binding
on the whole world.  If Alice allows Bob and his friends (where it is
understood that who counts as a friend of Bob is a matter for Bob) to
come on her land provided they don't litter, then all the friends are
bound not to litter on pain of losing their licenses.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
"The exception proves the rule."  Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory."  Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof."  But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."