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That's not my understanding at all. You can't just relicense BSD code. You can incorporate it and distribute it with your own code that's under another license, but you couldn't just clone the FreeBSD source tree, 'sed s/BSD/My Own License', and call it good.

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Relicense as in add another license with whatever restrictions they desire, because literally anything aside from changing/removing the original license itself goes.

As long as you keep the previous license text somewhere and note what it applies to then I don't see the problem? FUTO does both in the NOTICE file:

> Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

> you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

> ...

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