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Message-ID: <20070613134733.GE5986@ucw.cz> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:47:33 +0000 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Tim Post <tim.post@...kinetics.net> Cc: Tarkan Erimer <tarkan@...one.net.tr>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 Hi! > > So, does it mean we can change the license of the dead people's code ? > > > > Please realize that one doesn't need to be dead to become > uncommunicative incapacitated or vanish. The only need to be somewhere > other than where they were without updating anyone. > > Here is a very humorous, but sort of scary theoretical : > > "Linus was so disturbed by the code in a submitted patch that he had a > nervous breakdown and spent the next 30 years in a padded room. > Unfortunately, no provisions were left to determine what happens to his > copyrights should he become incapacitated." License is only promise not to sue. If Linus is safely in a padded room, I'll happily relicense Linux under GPLv17, knowing he is not going to sue me :-). (And actually, if he's in a padded room, there's probably someone who can act in his name. At least czech law works like that.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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