[cstross]

That's a good starting place, then.

(It's still polite to ask/let the heirs know what you're doing.)

[kragen]

wirth has published his project under an open-source license, guaranteeing everyone everywhere the freedom to study, copy, modify, and redistribute it forever

you're suggesting offering his heirs the opportunity to revoke that license

how can you possibly think this is a good idea? if it became a widespread practice, it would result in a million lawsuits like the sco lawsuit, utterly destroying free software. is that what you want?