Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758245AbXFJQDc (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:03:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750886AbXFJQDY (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:03:24 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35011 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817AbXFJQDX (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:03:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:05:31 -0700 From: Greg KH To: debian developer Cc: "david@lang.hm" , Tarkan Erimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Message-ID: <20070610160531.GA12179@kroah.com> 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 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1736 Lines: 44 On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 04:25:55PM +0530, debian developer wrote: > 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. "future steps"? Hah. My code is going to stay GPLv2 as the v3 license is horrible for kernel code for all of the reasons I have said in the past, plus a few more (what, I can make an "industrial" product but not a commercial one? That's horrible...) thanks, greg k-h - 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/