> debian developer wrote:
> > 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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