Paul, I think I'll give up, it looks I can't make myself understood.
When you say in your license:
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UNACCEPTABLE USES OF LICENSED CONTENT
The Licensee does not have the right to resell, rent, lease, transfer, redistribute or re-license the product.
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and
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This license is not transferable, WITHOUT THE WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE LICENSOR
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... is IRRELEVANT in the case of a company share sale/ share transfer.
When you are licencing to Faponthis LTD, it's not the shareholders being licensed, it's Faponthis LTD.
Mr. Brown and Mr White, the shareholders of Faponthis, cannot use the content themselves, nor they can of course sublicence anything. That would be a violation of the license.
WHEN Mr. Red buys shares of Faponthis (1%, 10% or 100%, doesn't matter), it's STILL Faponthis the licensee, no matter who are the shareholders. Faponthis continues to operate its business. It does not need to buy new Windows licenses, or get a new rent contract, just because some shareholder has changed.
This is how it works in any area of business. Anything else would be crazy, because it would effectively make any company share trade impossible.
I don't know if you managed to put in your particular license any different clause. Certainly, the language that you are quoting from that license does NOT require any license repurchase just because some shareholders change.
If someone has lost the license papers, of course, it's a total different game. It does not invalidate what above. You can obviously exploit such sloppiness if you want to. It doesn't look to me like a business model that would bring you on top of the world, but good luck with it
