Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders

From: Marc Perkel
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 13:45:00 EST




Patrick McLean wrote:
Stephen Hemminger wrote:


Also, given that several of the copyright holders in the kernel are dead, I don't think we will be able to obtain permission.



Makes me wonder if something should be done to address the issue of dead copyright holders. Not sure what but maybe there should be a clause in GPL3 addressing that?

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/