Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?
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 company/organisation? That's a good point. It makes me think that Prof. Morgenstern may have been using the FSF's disclaimer language for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was originally intended. -- Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | This is a new focus for the security http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | community. The actual user of the PC http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | [...] is the enemy. | -- David Aucsmith, IDF 1999 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What does disclaiming a copyright mean?
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 program, which you can read here: http://charles-miroir.plessy.org/debian/dialign-2.1.1/license/LICENSE.TXT Does in mean that B. Morgenstern abandons his rights to S. Abdeddaim ? Thank you a lot for your help, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?
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 4/19/06, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 program, which you can read here: http://charles-miroir.plessy.org/debian/dialign-2.1.1/license/LICENSE.TXT Does in mean that B. Morgenstern abandons his rights to S. Abdeddaim ? Thank you a lot for your help, -- Charles Plessy Wako, Saitama, Japon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net
Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?
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 Morgenstern are PD. I disagree. This paragraph is boilerplate from the GPL (in the section on applying the GPL's terms and conditions to your own work). I believe the goal is to have a third party (like an employer) state that it does not have a copyright interest in a work, so that other people can rely more easily on the licensor's statement that the licensor licenses the work under the GPL. The goal of the copyright disclaimer would then be to reduce uncertainty about whether the employer might later claim copyright (perhaps because the program could be considered a work made for hire or perhaps because the employer's contract with the employee normally gives the employer rights in programs written by the employee) and then try to apply terms inconsistent with the GPL terms to it. The person who issues a copyright disclaimer is not saying that there is no copyright -- just that he or she doesn't claim any copyright. I don't know if there are court cases that interpret the effect of this disclaimer in various jurisdictions. -- Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | This is a new focus for the security http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | community. The actual user of the PC http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | [...] is the enemy. | -- David Aucsmith, IDF 1999 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What does disclaiming a copyright mean?
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 released under the LGPL, but the parts written by Burkhard Morgenstern are PD. I disagree. This paragraph is boilerplate from the GPL (in the section on applying the GPL's terms and conditions to your own work). I believe the goal is to have a third party (like an employer) state that it does not have a copyright interest in a work, so that other people can rely more easily on the licensor's statement that the licensor licenses the work under the GPL. 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 company/organisation? andrew The goal of the copyright disclaimer would then be to reduce uncertainty about whether the employer might later claim copyright (perhaps because the program could be considered a work made for hire or perhaps because the employer's contract with the employee normally gives the employer rights in programs written by the employee) and then try to apply terms inconsistent with the GPL terms to it. The person who issues a copyright disclaimer is not saying that there is no copyright -- just that he or she doesn't claim any copyright. I don't know if there are court cases that interpret the effect of this disclaimer in various jurisdictions. -- Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | This is a new focus for the security http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | community. The actual user of the PC http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | [...] is the enemy. | -- David Aucsmith, IDF 1999 -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net
