Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

2012-06-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting John Cowan (co...@mercury.ccil.org): Is there actually such a thing as copyright sublicensing? I suspect not. In which case purporting to sublicense an unchanged copy of a work is usurping the copyright owner's right to control the license, and likewise for a copy whose changes are

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

2012-06-07 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:18 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote: Rick Moen scripsit: I keep hearing a limited group of people speaking of this alleged tort ('purporting to sublicense'), but fail to find it in copyright law. Is there actually such a thing as copyright sublicensing?  I

Re: [License-discuss] proposal to revise and slightly reorganize the OSI licensing pages

2012-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Rick Moen wrote: My surmise is that the thing being referred to as '{sublicensing|relicensing} of BSD works' is in fact stating the licensing for a derivative. Probably. My own opinion is that folks who do anything less than a substantial rewrite of software ought