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
