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Re:Shen Programming Language for Android by lmm on Thursday December 28, 2017 @01:47PM (#16023948)
Of course you can license code you don't own. Otherwise there would be no way to have a license that allowed its recipients to redistribute and then allowed the people who received the code from them to redistribute it themselves.
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Re:Shen Programming Language for Android by MTarver on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:16PM (#16025965)
I'm afraid you don't really understand licenses. A license like BSD gives you the rights to distribute the software subject to certain provisions. It does not give you the right to change the license. I can't really spend any more time on this but I'm sure people around you can point you in the right direction.
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