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

[Tarkan Erimer]

david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:43:28 +0300
> > From: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 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 <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > >  On Saturday June 9, tarkan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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