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

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Sun Jun 10 2007 - 08:46:34 EST


On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Neil Brown wrote:

> I presume the heirs of the dead people could change the license. And if
> they have no heir, then there is no-one to sue for breach of copyright,
> so I assume the copyright lapses.

In most of the law systems out there the copyright stays valid for 70
years (or so) after the holder's death.

--
Jiri Kosina
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