Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!qiclab!leonard
From: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No RTM trial?
Message-ID: <1830@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 23:47:14 GMT
Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon.
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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  The worm code is an unpublished work, and Robert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copyright statement to preserve ownership of an unpublished work.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 if you distribute a work *without* the notice, you lose the copyright
unless you did so inadvertently, or take immediate steps to remedy the
ommision. Right? 
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]		...!tektronix!reed!qiclab!leonard
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."