Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755278AbXFJNiV (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:38:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751005AbXFJNiO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:38:14 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58407 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750955AbXFJNiO (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:38:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:38:23 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Neil Brown Cc: Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070610133823.GB3588@stusta.de> References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <18026.16739.228277.938421@notabene.brown> <466BBB0B.4050303@netone.net.tr> <18027.50727.190221.80822@notabene.brown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18027.50727.190221.80822@notabene.brown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1474 Lines: 39 On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 07:36:39PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: >... > And I wouldn't be surprised if there were some legal precedent that > allowed for some process whereby we could make a "best effort" to > contact copyright holders (including registered paper letters and > entries in the "Public Notices" section of major newspapers) and if > no-one stepped forward to claim copyright in a reasonable period of > time we could assume that the copyright had lapsed. But you would > need to ask a lawyer, and it would be different in different > countries. >... A legal precedent valid in all jurisdictions? Harald suceessfully takes legal actions against people violating his copyright on the Linux kernel under the terms of the GPL in Germany at German courts based on German laws. If someone finds any legal precedent in Finland or the USA or Russia that some copyright would have lapsed for some reason, would this have any legal effect in Germany? > NeilBrown cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/