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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
Summary: copyright
Message-ID: <4770@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 16:31:39 GMT
References: <16953@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5424@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <16966@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5432@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <5432@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
writes:
>Publishing the code is not illegal in any way...

I suspect it is.  The worm code is an unpublished work, and Robert
Morris is the copyright owner.  One does not need to include a
copyright statement to preserve ownership of an unpublished work.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi