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From: PJML@ibma.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk (Pete Lucas)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Copyright on viruses?
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Date: 1 Mar 90 17:14:57 GMT
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Copyright of virus code - remember that the copyright laws in many
countries are largely non-existent. Do not assume that copyright law
as operated in the USA/Europe/anywhere else actually applies to the
country where the virus is written/copied/assembled/disassembled. How
can you even think of trying to enforce copyright? If i disassemble
the virus with my disassembler, and someone else uses the same
disassembler on the same virus, so what?  You get the same disassembly
- - thats what!
The whole question of copyrighting viruses is an irrelevant diversion to
the task of identifying the sources and writing disinfectors.

///Pete