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From: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
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Subject: Re: Is the worm copyrighted?
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Date: 22 Nov 88 16:26:30 GMT
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1.  What is/was .crossover?

2. The worm, per se, is not illegal.  Use of the worm on someone
else's machines probably is, although a court of law has yet to
decide that.  In a similar fashion, owning a gun is not illegal
(in general), but shooting someone with it usually is.
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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