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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
    david@lang.hm wrote:
    > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
    >
    >> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:43:28 +0300
    >> From: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@netone.net.tr>
    >> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    >> Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
    >>
    >> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
    >>> On Sat, 2007-06-09 15:57:55 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
    >>>
    >>> > On Saturday June 9, tarkan@netone.net.tr wrote:
    >>> > > > As we know the forthcoming GPL V3 will be not compatible with
    >>> the GPL > > V2 and Linux Kernel is GPL V2 only.
    >>> > > So, another point is, which is previously mentioned by Linus
    >>> and > > others, that if it is decided to upgrade the Linux Kernel's
    >>> License to > > GPL V3, it is needed the permission of all the
    >>> maintainers permission > > who contributed to the Linux Kernel and
    >>> there are a lot of lost or > > dead maintainers. Which makes it
    >>> impossible to get all the > > maintainers' permission.
    >>> > > > You don't need the permission of maintainers. You need the
    >>> permission
    >>> > of copyright owners. The two groups overlap, but are not the same.
    >>> > Dead people cannot own anything, even copyright. Their estate
    >>> > probably can. I don't think it is theoretically impossible to get
    >>> > everyone's permission, though it may be quite close to practically
    >>> > impossible. >
    >>> And the next question is: How much copyright does a copyright owner
    >>> own? For example, think of drivers written by one person, but a small
    >>> number of lines changed here and there by others to adopt the code to
    >>> new APIs. Ask them all, I think?
    >>>
    >>> MfG, JBG
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >> And maybe another questions should be : How long a copyright owner
    >> can hold the copyright, if died or lost for sometime ? if died, the
    >> copyright still should be valid or not ? If lost, what the law orders
    >> at this point for copyright holding ?
    >
    > I believe that in the US it's life + 90 years.
    >
    > David Lang
    Hmm... Really,it is damn too much time to wait! It's really better idea
    to replace the code of this person as said before instead of waiting
    such 90+ years!

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