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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
Message-ID: <181@twwells.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 88 11:26:06 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  The worm code is an unpublished work, and Robert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: copyright statement to preserve ownership of an unpublished work.

Ah yes, but distributing a work to many people, who are not know to
you, is what constitutes "publishing". So, perhaps, the right way to
look at it is that the absence of a copyright notice means the thing
was released into the public domain?!

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Bill
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