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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Subject: Re: Are virus sources public domain software ?
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Date: 9 Feb 90 13:48:13 GMT
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ZDEE699@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK writes:
>Well, how about some reliable organisation (the CERT, for example)
>registering the source code under copyright laws ?

There are numerous reasons why this would not work - the most simple
one is that the original author holds the copyright, even if there is
no "Copyright (c) 19xx, xxxxxxxxxx" message visible.

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Fridrik Skulason   -   University of Iceland, Computing Services.
frisk@rhi.hi.is        Technical Editor, Virus Bulletin.