[Lazarus] software licence question - deceased author

[Roberto Padovani]

2011/2/24 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Joost van der Sluis <joost at 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. If the
> author had no heirs you are doomed.
>

Then, having a patent on the software would be less limiting...only 20
years from that date of disclosure....
:-)

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