[copyleft-next] Limited-term copyleft

"Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)" copyleft-next at clacke.user.lysator.liu.se
Sat Feb 16 05:41:07 UTC 2013


On 2013-02-16 10:38, Richard Fontana wrote:
 > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 06:53:51AM +0100, Kuno Woudt wrote:
 >> On 02/14/2013 04:40 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:

 >>> The idea would be to have the copyleft terms disappear after some
 >>> limited period far short of the statutory copyright term.
 >>
 >> The only reason I can see for wanting this is to deal with copyleft
 >> license compatibility issues.  Which in my experience are not enough
 >> of a problem to weaken the copyleft nature of the work in this way.
 >
 > Out of curiosity: If you were writing a new copyright statute to cover
 > software, how long would you make the duration of copyright?

Five, with the ability to extend with five more if registered and source 
code placed in escrow for the public upon expiration.

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    /c


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