Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-25 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2011/2/24 Flávio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: IIRC (at least) on US law only the copyright holder can file an infrigent lawsuit, In Brazil too -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-25 Thread José Mejuto
Hello Lazarus-List, Friday, February 25, 2011, 1:16:46 PM, you wrote: MvdV On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:54:08AM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: 2011/2/24 Fl?vio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: IIRC (at least) on US law only the copyright holder can file an infrigent lawsuit, In

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-25 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 01:45:47PM +0100, Jos? Mejuto wrote: MvdV On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:54:08AM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: 2011/2/24 Fl?vio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: IIRC (at least) on US law only the copyright holder can file an infrigent lawsuit, In

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-25 Thread José Mejuto
Hello Lazarus-List, Friday, February 25, 2011, 2:56:15 PM, you wrote: MvdV Reading this I wonder how heirs are defined in this context. MvdV Do cousins count? Second cousins? Third MvdV degree cousins? And, by default, finally the government. MvdV If it is not a first order relative

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-25 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marco van de Voort schrieb: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:54:08AM +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: 2011/2/24 Fl?vio Etrusco flavio.etru...@gmail.com: IIRC (at least) on US law only the copyright holder can file an infrigent lawsuit, In Brazil too Reading this I wonder how heirs are

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-25 Thread José Mejuto
Hello Lazarus-List, Friday, February 25, 2011, 6:10:43 PM, you wrote: Are we talking about copyright ? MvdV No, we are talking about inheritance in general. But it was more meant as an MvdV illustration that the definition of heir can vary in law and common speak. In Spain and I think in

[Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Somebody asked me an interesting question, and I have no clue as to what the answer is. If a software developer released source code as MPL. Then the author died, due to unforeseen circumstances, does that MPL still apply to that released source code? ie: Can somebody else take that source

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
It depends on the country, check this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_length The usual answer is: No, you need to wait 50 or 70 years more. The answer is Yes only for Afghanistan and Marshal Islands -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho --

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Op 2011-02-24 12:16, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho het geskryf: It depends on the country, check this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_length Thank you for that information. Interesting indeed. :) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 11:16 +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: It depends on the country, check this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_length The usual answer is: No, you need to wait 50 or 70 years more. So if the author released under the MPL, it will

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl 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.

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Roberto Padovani
2011/2/24 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl 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

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: It depends on the country, check this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries'_copyright_length The life + X clearly indicates that the rights will fall to some inheritor - else it wouldn't make any legal sense. The X is big enough to make it

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Flávio Etrusco
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Joost van der Sluis jo...@cnoc.nl wrote: So if the author released under the MPL, it will stay MPL. At least for 50 years... (Then it will become public

Re: [Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

2011-02-24 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Flávio Etrusco schrieb: 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? Yes, if... DoDi -- ___ Lazarus mailing list