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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:00:28 +0300
From: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@netone.net.tr>
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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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