Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
Message-ID: <940@vsi.COM>
Date: 16 Nov 88 06:36:53 GMT
References: <16953@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5424@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <4770@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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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...
 
In article <4770@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
< 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  The worm code is an unpublished work, and Robert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 copyright statement to preserve ownership of an unpublished work.

How about the fair use provision, especially by a University for
the purposes of research or whatever...


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