Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!encore!gloom!cory
From: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
Summary: But he did publish it...
Message-ID: <197@gloom.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 16:15:57 GMT
References: <16953@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5424@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <4770@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: Alloy Computer Products, Framingham, Mass.
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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  The worm code is an unpublished work, and Robert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 copyright statement to preserve ownership of an unpublished work.

But he did publish it! or it least it seems that way to me! (I mean
what else can you call sending out multiple copies to over 6000 different
computer sites thoughout the nation??? 

However, the real question is Was there a Copyright Notice in the 
actual worm as published by the Wormer?  If so, is there a name on it?
if not, then (obviously) it is in the public domain...

+C


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Cory (the last person to escape alive from riverside) Kempf
UUCP: encore.com!gloom!cory
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