Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:58:22 +0300 | From | Tarkan Erimer <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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debian developer wrote: > On 6/10/07, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@netone.net.tr> wrote: >> debian developer wrote: >> > 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. >> Yep, the GPLv3 probably will release around July time. So;luckily, we >> had very little time to see the final decision about it :-) I hope we >> should upgrade to GPLv3 and Sun should "Dual License" the OpenSolaris >> via GPLv3 (or at least,GPLv3 should be CDDL compatible.). So,we should >> have more fruits (like ZFS,DTrace etc.) ;-) >> >> >> > I don't think that upgrading to GPLv3 just for the sake of tools > present in some other software should be the reason. We are capable > enough of developing our own tools, and many experienced people are > working on equivalent(etx4 etc.,) and much sophisticated tools for the > linux kernel. It is not because of the sake of the tools and we have no capable enough developers. It's just about an example that came to my mind, as I mentioned before and also,it is the same thing as we, all the time, did. I mean getting and sharing codes from many different open source projects like BSD and countless others. So, OpenSolaris makes no difference at this.
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