Re: OT: Copyright on Security advisories

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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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Thomas H. Ptacek                          Network Security Research Team, NAI
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