> > On 4 aug 2006, at 15:06, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > >> So what happens if you find a discontinued LGPL project (dead for 4+ > >> years) and you want to create a new product based on the original > >> work. Trying to contact the original author was unsuccessfull. > >> There > >> are many of those on SourceForge. > > > > Then you are stuck with LGPL. > > Or you can wait until 75 years (90 in the US) after the last author > dies :) (or whatever copyright term extension Disney has managed to > buy by then)
If you have problems contacting them, getting exact deceased dates can be a problem too :) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
