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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, there is not. A license is just a contract.

Buying a company because they have a license you want is not remotely unusual. It's perfectly standard behavior, and the entire enterprise world would fall apart if an acquisition lost the rights to licenses the purchased business owned.