Re: What does "disclaiming a copyright mean"?

[Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>]

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.

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