Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268839AbUJKMBI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:01:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268851AbUJKMBI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:01:08 -0400 Received: from pauli.thundrix.ch ([213.239.201.101]:16022 "EHLO pauli.thundrix.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268839AbUJKMAq (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:00:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:57:42 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Jon Masters Cc: Alan Cox , Brian Litzinger , Dave Jones , "Jeff V. Merkey" , Kyle Moffett , "jmerkey@comcast.net" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone Message-ID: <20041011115742.GA13534@thundrix.ch> References: <35fb2e590410011509712b7d1@mail.gmail.com> <415DD1ED.6030101@drdos.com> <1096738439.25290.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> <41659748.9090906@drdos.com> <8B592DC4-18A9-11D9-ABEB-000393ACC76E@mac.com> <4165B265.2050506@drdos.com> <20041007221826.GB5302@redhat.com> <20041010063541.GA9445@top.worldcontrol.com> <1097414703.29264.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4169B704.8080906@jonmasters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4169B704.8080906@jonmasters.org> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1218 Lines: 38 --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Salut, On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:26:12PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote: > What about those who cannot comment on the code, for example people > who have since died or dropped off the face of the Earth? Out of > curiousity, if anyone knows what view is held in that situation, I'd > love to know. Their code is protected under the right of property for exactly 70 years from the moment they died. That is, you can't relicense it in our case. The old licenses stay valid, as they agreed on them. Tonnerre --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBanU1/4bL7ovhw40RAsIXAKC6yKF+nJJMhcN0eQlsgEl27uU/8ACfbXrr enfJW3wDiN1CWJnjHU+UHnI= =pJEP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO-- - 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/