This is actually a good one.
This is actually a good one.
Posted Apr 14, 2026 14:53 UTC (Tue) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: This is actually a good one. by grmnsftphr
Parent article: Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog)
That is not correct. Under Photographic Illustrators Corp. v. Orgill, Inc., the First Circuit held in 2020 that a sublicense doesn't even have to be explicitly written down, let alone identical to the original license.
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