[email protected] wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:43:28 +0300
From: Tarkan Erimer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
On Sat, 2007-06-09 15:57:55 +1000, Neil Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday June 9, [email protected] wrote:
> > > As we know the forthcoming GPL V3 will be not compatible with
the GPL > > V2 and Linux Kernel is GPL V2 only.
> > So, another point is, which is previously mentioned by Linus
and > > others, that if it is decided to upgrade the Linux Kernel's
License to > > GPL V3, it is needed the permission of all the
maintainers permission > > who contributed to the Linux Kernel and
there are a lot of lost or > > dead maintainers. Which makes it
impossible to get all the > > maintainers' permission.
> > > You don't need the permission of maintainers. You need the
permission
> of copyright owners. The two groups overlap, but are not the same.
> Dead people cannot own anything, even copyright. Their estate
> probably can. I don't think it is theoretically impossible to get
> everyone's permission, though it may be quite close to practically
> impossible. >
And the next question is: How much copyright does a copyright owner
own? For example, think of drivers written by one person, but a small
number of lines changed here and there by others to adopt the code to
new APIs. Ask them all, I think?
MfG, JBG
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!
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