On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:37:44PM -0500, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > how long should copyright last? I'm not a big fan of long > periods. If the goal is to encourage further artist production, it > should be long enough to create some revenue for the artist but short > enough that it doesn't let the artist rest for a too significant span of > his life. Probably somewhere in the range of 5-10 years.
That reminds me. IIRC didn't Alladin do this business model with Ghostscript? I think they let businesses buy that latest and greatest version of Ghostscript if they couldn't wait or else they had to wait a while for same code to be released under the GPL. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
