Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759062AbXFJOX3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:23:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755195AbXFJOXW (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:23:22 -0400 Received: from server021.webpack.hosteurope.de ([80.237.130.29]:58486 "EHLO server021.webpack.hosteurope.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754855AbXFJOXW (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:23:22 -0400 From: Michael Gerdau Organization: Technosis GmbH To: Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:23:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Neil Brown , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <18027.50727.190221.80822@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2944232.WI9RLaCX5v"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706101623.32733.mgd@technosis.de> X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;mgd@technosis.de;1181485401;72e8a204; Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2122 Lines: 56 --nextPart2944232.WI9RLaCX5v Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > In most of the law systems out there the copyright stays valid for 70=20 > years (or so) after the holder's death. [I don't want to appear picky but IMO it is important to be as precise as one could possibly be, therefor...] That is not quite correct. At least for the german law system and presumably for most if not all similar systems the corrrect stmts is: In most of the law systems out there the copyright stays valid for 70=20 years (or so) after initial publication of the copyrighted work. For work whose publication date can't be determined (*) (e.g. unpublished work) the creators death is assumed to be the publication date for the sake of determining the aforementioned 70 years protection period. (*) "can't be determined" does not apply for published work with an insecure initial publication date. In those cases the earliest documented publication (i.e. prooveable in court) is considered the initial publication =2Edate Note that the original phrase could last indefinitely by simply moving the copyright from person to person. Best, Michael =2D-=20 Technosis GmbH, Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer: Michael Gerdau, Tobias Dittmar Sitz Hamburg; HRB 89145 Amtsgericht Hamburg Vote against SPAM - see http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Michael Gerdau email: mgd@technosis.de GPG-keys available on request or at public keyserver --nextPart2944232.WI9RLaCX5v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGbAlkUYYhyuxDQc4RApaTAJ0bPd/sPjOMmIgyeZY1ecnUBqurFgCdFPCT nYUOMH9v3iGw9bwugE985Qw= =d8qq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2944232.WI9RLaCX5v-- - 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/