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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
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Date: 15 Nov 88 23:01:40 GMT
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In article <4770@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>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  The worm code is an unpublished work, and Robert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copyright statement to preserve ownership of an unpublished work.

You are correct.  I meant to say "publishing any reverse-engineered code
is not illegal..."
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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