Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > I thought so, since anyway in many countries one can not abandon his > rights and put his work under the public domain.
The text that was recommended by the IETF lawyers was: In addition, the authors (on behalf of themselves and their employers) hereby relinquish any claim to any copyright that they may have in this work, whether granted under contract or by operation of law or international treaty, and hereby commit to the public, at large, that they shall not, at any time in the future, seek to enforce any copyright in this work against any person or entity, or prevent any person or entity from copying, publishing, distributing or creating derivative works of this work. The legal theory, as I understand it, is that even in countries where one cannot relinquish copyright interest, the above constitutes estoppel against suing over your copyright, which accomplishes essentially the same thing. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org