[Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

[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 a problem of our children, which most probably will have no 
use for such old things.

The X=0 case is very unlikely to matter, except when you intend to kill 
the author in order to make its work free of rights. [Life can be very 
short in Afghanistan ;-]

A license will continue to be valid, for the copy somebody got under 
that license. Otherwise search for possible inheritors and ask them for 
their conditions.

Just my 0.02€ - IANAL.

DoDi