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

[Tarkan Erimer]

debian developer wrote:
> On 6/10/07, Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.) ;-)
> I don't think that upgrading to GPLv3 just for the sake of tools
> present in some other software should be the reason. We are capable
> enough of developing our own tools, and many experienced people are
> working on equivalent(etx4 etc.,) and much sophisticated tools for the
> linux kernel.
It is not because of the sake of the tools and we have no capable enough 
developers. It's just about an example that came to my mind, as I 
mentioned before and also,it is the same thing as we, all the time, did. 
I mean getting and sharing codes from many different open source 
projects like BSD and countless others. So, OpenSolaris makes no 
difference at this.

Regards,

Tarkan
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