Ian Jackson wrote:
> It describes a problem very similar that that of the Debian
> website copyright (we don't know exactly who the copyright holders
> are, can't contact them, and wish to make what would be an infringing
> use).
It would indeed be improper to use the procedure that I outlined in the
case of the conventional orphan copyright holder, Open Source projects
are different because of the collective nature of the work. The process
I outlined was suggested some years ago by Larry Rosen, who is an attorney.
Thanks
Bruce