Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:00:28 +0300 | From | Tarkan Erimer <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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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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