On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Joost van der Sluis <[email protected]> wrote: >> So if the author released under the MPL, it will stay MPL. At least for >> 50 years... (Then it will become public domain, or the rules that in >> your country) > > But you can make an agreement with heirs to change the license. If the > author had no heirs you are doomed. > > -- > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > > --
IIRC (at least) on US law only the copyright holder can file an infrigent lawsuit, so if there's no heirs the 'work' essentially falls on public domain? -Flávio -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
