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by gamblor956 1029 days ago
You missed the part where a license is a type of contract...

A copyright license is a contract, wherein the copyright owner agrees to allow a third party the use of their copyrighted material in exchange for [X]. X might be money, or it might be an agreement to limit how the copyrighted material is used. There isn't another document or anything that says "License to Use [Copyrighted Material]",

This means that losing the "license" is the same as saying you no longer have an agreement allowing you to use the copyrighted material.