1814 ‘Member of Univ. of Oxford’ Observ. Med. Reform in Pamphleteer 3 430 All persons selling Drugs or Medicines in such stations to be Sub-Licensed.

1888 Telegr. Jrnl. & Electr. Rev. 20 Apr. 421/2 They having now granted licences to the American Brush Company, who had sub-licensed other firms.

1930 Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record 15 Sept. 3/4 Illinois Zinc Company has acquired the exclusive rights in the United States for the manufacture of extruded cups..and is privileged to sub-license others to manufacture these patented cups.

1968 Financial Times 1 Feb. 9/1 A major U.S. group..has been granted an exclusive licence in North America, with the right to sub-licence, on a steel surface treatment process.

1993 Computerworld 23 Aug. 148/2 A third-party lessor provides financing by licensing the software, paying for it and then sublicensing the software to the user.

2003 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 19 Apr. 2 A perpetual, royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide licence to use, copy, sublicense, redistribute, publish, delete or display any content or software..placed on its systems by customers.