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On 02/17/2012 09:00 PM, John Cowan wrote:
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No, I mean license termination by the author or his heirs under Title
17, Section 203(a), which permits the unilateral cancellation of any
license during the period from 35 years to 40 years after it was granted
(203(a)(3)), and which "may be effected notwithstanding any agreement
to the contrary" (203(a)(5)).</pre>
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<pre wrap="">This is moot to the issue of the CC0 license.
One of the reasons we've not been worried about it is that 35-40 year period. But we <i>are</i> going to hit it for the Numerical Electromagnetic Code (see Wikipedia) and other Academic software that has derivatives still in use.
Section (1) requires a large enough majority in a joint work that most community-developed products could never be recaptured, as far as I can tell.
Thanks
Bruce
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