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> If the latter, which open-source developer has died the earliest?

Can we just take a second to appreciate how downright inhumane copyright expiry is? It basically encourages cheering for people to die because of copyright expiry.

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I agree that it's dumb. The only clear alternative, N years after the work was created, has its own problems though, such as trying to figure out when each work was created to determine whether it's in the public domain or not.

Usually getting a upper bound on when something was first published is easier than finding out when and if some random person has died.

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