pruning "dead" licenses

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Mon Dec 13 14:31:18 UTC 2004


Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com>:
> I got to thinking the other day that we really ought to be pruning
> "dead" licenses from the list.  The principle seems correct, since the
> underlying intellectual property right expires as well: copyright
> after a gazillion years[1], patents after twenty years, and trademarks
> after you stop defending them.

I approve of this idea.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>



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