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

[Jiri Kosina]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Neil Brown wrote:

> I presume the heirs of the dead people could change the license.  And if 
> they have no heir, then there is no-one to sue for breach of copyright, 
> so I assume the copyright lapses.

In most of the law systems out there the copyright stays valid for 70 
years (or so) after the holder's death.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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