Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758716AbXFJOtT (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:49:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754855AbXFJOtK (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:49:10 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58455 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754690AbXFJOtJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:49:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:49:19 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Michael Gerdau Cc: Jiri Kosina , Neil Brown , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070610144919.GC3588@stusta.de> References: <466A3EC6.6030706@netone.net.tr> <18027.50727.190221.80822@notabene.brown> <200706101623.32733.mgd@technosis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200706101623.32733.mgd@technosis.de> 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: 1288 Lines: 36 On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:23:20PM +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: > > In most of the law systems out there the copyright stays valid for 70 > > 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 > years (or so) after initial publication of the copyrighted work. >... Please read the German "Gesetz über Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte" before making completely false claims - in Germany it's 70 years after the death of the author. > Best, > Michael 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/