[9716] in bugtraq
Re: OT: Copyright on Security advisories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tqbf)
Mon Feb 22 00:42:31 1999
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:06:00 -0500
Reply-To: tqbf@pobox.com
From: tqbf <ashland@POBOX.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Aviram Jenik complains that copyright statements in commercial security
advisories are preventing him from re-publishing them, in the format he
desires to use, on his web portal. I do not understand the basis behind
the complain. Organizations that write advisories typically go to great
effort to accurately and appropriately present information to the security
community. There is no reason they should not be able to copyright their
work.
If one wants to present the content of the advisory in a different manner,
one should write another advisory. Nothing (short of a patent) protects
the information inside the advisory.
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