Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:43:28 +0300 | From | Tarkan Erimer <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2007-06-09 15:57:55 +1000, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote: > >> On Saturday June 9, tarkan@netone.net.tr 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 ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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