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

[Tarkan Erimer]

debian developer wrote:
> On 6/10/07, david@xxxxxxx <david@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tarkan Erimer wrote:
> >
> > >> >  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!
> >
> > exactly, however as others are pointing out, there are a lot of active
> > developers who do not agree with some of the key points of the GPLv3
> > (including Linus), so until you convince them that the GPLv3 is 
> > better it
>
> Last heard, Linus was quite impressed with the toned down version of
> the final draft of GPLv3. I think Linus, and other major developers
> should make their stand on this issue clear so that the kernel
> community can discuss the future steps.
Yep, the GPLv3 probably will release around July time. So;luckily, we 
had very little time to see the final decision about it :-) I hope we 
should upgrade to GPLv3 and Sun should "Dual License" the OpenSolaris 
via GPLv3 (or at least,GPLv3 should be CDDL compatible.). So,we should 
have more fruits (like ZFS,DTrace etc.) ;-)


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