Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

[Hyman Rosen]

rjack wrote:
> There is no such thing as a "chain of licensing" under the GPL. The GPL 
> is a nonexclusive license and there is no such thing as "sub-licensing"
> under a nonexclusive license. The best you can do is a "transfer of 
contractual
> interest". You can't transfer ownership of copyrights with a nonexclusive
> license and you can't license what you don't own.

Wrong. The GPL itself explains that there is no sub-licensing.
Instead, as a work is conveyed under terms of the GPL, the
recipient receives a license from the copyright holders.