Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754612AbXFJK4N (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:56:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752344AbXFJKz6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:55:58 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:26257 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752141AbXFJKz5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:55:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=brhuCFzCcIZABlaPE/4YXx46LJjHIPV5kps2q+bwpKJWVkW/98udE9MURbPGz7vKLy5TaC/sWo0peqfFUKbTZqvEi7BENO/8uYmOnzTT/Wvuun9JO9WMfq1tArRmgZxPbJ15b4+GYvcN2NLT5JRVj45xUcDkgP/scHSZQbGvg0w= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:25:55 +0530 From: "debian developer" To: "david@lang.hm" Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Cc: "Tarkan Erimer" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , mingo@elte.hu, greg@kroah.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 28 On 6/10/07, 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/