Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755322AbXFJKEs (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:04:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752904AbXFJKEl (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:04:41 -0400 Received: from dsl081-033-126.lax1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.33.126]:37204 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752520AbXFJKEk (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:04:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:03:25 -0700 (PDT) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Tarkan Erimer cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 In-Reply-To: <466BCBBC.90305@netone.net.tr> Message-ID: References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <18026.16739.228277.938421@notabene.brown> <20070609071231.GL2649@lug-owl.de> <466BB9B0.5030908@netone.net.tr> <466BCBBC.90305@netone.net.tr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1110 Lines: 26 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 really doesn't matter how hard it is to deal with the people who you can't contact. David Lang - 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/