full-disclosure - Re: Request to publish your Proof of Concept (esc1.html)

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Message-ID: <200509261857.j8QIvQk4013963@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon Sep 26 19:57:48 2005
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Re: Request to publish your Proof of Concept
	(esc1.html) 

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:02:28 +0545, Bipin Gautam said:

> WHAT/who is stoping you from rewriting the POC making slight changes
> in program flow? No that ain't against the law... or is it?

At least under US law, "slight changes" would make the POC a "derivative work",
which would be against the law without a suitable license from the original
copyright holder - and you can't even use "fair use" to wiggle around this one,
as the POC would almost certainly require much more code copying than what "fair
use" would cover.

What *would* be legal is looking at the original, figuring out how it worked,
and then writing a totally new and original POC that utilized the same principle
(as only the expression is copyrightable, not the idea expressed).

Of course, IANAL, and you'd probably want to ask a competent lawyer specializing
in intellectual property if you think the lawyer's answer might matter....
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