Josh Triplett wrote: >> 7. Sub-licensing >> >> Sub-licenses are not authorized by the present license. Any person who >> wishes to make use of the rights that it confers will be directly bound >> to the author of the original work. > > This is the oddity referred to above. First of all, based on the > language in clause 2.2, "originals (original and subsequent)", it is > possible that each new modified version is considered both a modified > version of its predecessors (subsequent to their licenses), and an > original work of its own (with a license from the modifier). If so, and > if this clause is simply stating that modified versions are subject to > the original author's license, that's fine.
I believe this is exactly what it is saying. If you know someone who knows legal French, they can check. I see no point in going into further detail when reading a translation. -- This space intentionally left blank.