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Article #5301Copyright on viruses?
From: Pete Lucas
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 17:14
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 17:14
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!polyslo!vlsi3b15!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: PJML@ibma.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk (Pete Lucas) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Copyright on viruses? Message-ID: <0002.9003051143.AA06715@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 1 Mar 90 17:14:57 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List <VIRUS-L@IBM1.CC.Lehigh.EDU> Lines: 12 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu