Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!laas!ralph
From: ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Publishing the code?  (Was Re: No RTM trial?)
Summary: On the lighter side: then it's public domain
Message-ID: <252@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 24 Nov 88 17:57:04 GMT
References: <1209@fig.bbn.com>
Organization: LAAS-CNRS Toulouse France
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In article <1209@fig.bbn.com>, rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
| HOWEVER, since there was no copyright in the code, and since it was NOT
| distributed to a small number of sites, and since the perpetrator (whoever
| it is) did not make any attempt to retrieve the copies but just stopped
| further propogation, I believe that the author of the worm has effectively
| relinquished the copyright on his or her program.

So then it's effectively public domain!  I don't want to reopen the
dissemination question.

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