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

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

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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