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Symantec Buys SecurityFocus, among others....


From: full-disclosure () lists netsys com (Blue Boar)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 15:29:30 -0700

Jay D. Dyson wrote:
      Perhaps the best way to beat these cash hounds at their own game
is to start using a strictly not-for-profit licensing on all released
advisories and proof-of-concept code which stipulates that for-profit
companies may not use said information in any way.

Interesting concept.  How do you propose to copyright an idea?  You can 
decline to let someone mirror your exploit or advisory verbatim, but 
there's nothing you can do to keep someone from reporting about a 
vulnerability.

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