martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I stumbled over this statement in an email from the KDE team to > -vote: > > > For the record, relicensing most of our documentation will be > > impossible. Not a can-do attitude.
> > There are several people with stated objections to using > > the GPL for documentation, Nothing you can do about them. > > many people we have no way of contacting, Have to find them or rewrite, indeed. > > and a couple who are no longer alive, which makes them fairly > > difficult to contact. Contacting their heirs would hopefully not be difficult. See below. > I am curious: what happens to his/her copyrights when a person dies, > specifically wrt licence choice. Do people just assume that the > deceased didn't ever want to change the licence? Copyrights are inherited. Their heirs have the right to relicense. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
