debian developer wrote:

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> On 6/10/07, david@lang.hm  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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