PJML@ibma.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk (Pete Lucas) (03/02/90)
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