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From: trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,misc.legal
Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
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Date: 16 Nov 88 18:20:50 GMT
References: <16953@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5424@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <16966@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5432@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <4770@bsu-cs.UUCP>
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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  The worm code is an unpublished work, and Robert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copyright statement to preserve ownership of an unpublished work.

I think Morris has to actually claim copyrights on this material in some
manner, even if it is just having a listing notorized or prepending "the poor
man's copyright" (a "copyright" comment at the top of the module).  Anyone
with more expertise on this matter care to comment?

Anyway, I suspect no one else would wish to claim prior creation of this
code.  :-)  I doubt if Robert Morris will have any problems protecting his
work on that regard.

Anyone know if releasing the worm source code files (the ones that came over
as *.c files) is tatamount to releasing them into the public domain?  The
object files?  [1/2 :-)]

This really belongs in misc.legal...

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