Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

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

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