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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: 19 Nov 88 18:10:57 GMT
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The opinion of our University legal department is that the author of
the original Worm code has lost any copyright on the binary of the
code.  Anything reverse-engineered by anyone can be copyrighted by
those "engineers" if they so desire.

-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf