Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:25:55 +0530 | From | "debian developer" <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On 6/10/07, david@lang.hm <david@lang.hm> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote: > > >> > 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! > > exactly, however as others are pointing out, there are a lot of active > developers who do not agree with some of the key points of the GPLv3 > (including Linus), so until you convince them that the GPLv3 is better it
Last heard, Linus was quite impressed with the toned down version of the final draft of GPLv3. I think Linus, and other major developers should make their stand on this issue clear so that the kernel community can discuss the future steps. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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