Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
Andrew Donnellan writes: I'll disagree further - Burkhard Morgenstern is a professor at the University of Gottingen, and he is listed specifically as one of the authors. If it was an employer disclaiming copyright interest, wouldn't it be done by an authorised representative of a

What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear debian-legal subscribers, As I am not a native speaker, I face difficulty of understanding the following sentence: Burkhard Morgenstern hereby disclaims all copyright interest in DIALIGN, written by Burkhard Morgenstern and Said Abdeddaim. It is from the licence of the dialign

Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Andrew Donnellan
Disclaiming a copyright means releasing into the public domain. (as in no copyright at all). IANAL, but looking at what the license file says, I would assume it to be copyrighted by Said Abdeddaim and released under the LGPL, but the parts written by Burkhard Morgenstern are PD. andrew On

Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Seth David Schoen
Andrew Donnellan writes: Disclaiming a copyright means releasing into the public domain. (as in no copyright at all). IANAL, but looking at what the license file says, I would assume it to be copyrighted by Said Abdeddaim and released under the LGPL, but the parts written by Burkhard

Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?

2006-04-18 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 4/19/06, Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Donnellan writes: Disclaiming a copyright means releasing into the public domain. (as in no copyright at all). IANAL, but looking at what the license file says, I would assume it to be copyrighted by Said Abdeddaim and