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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas H. Ptacek Network Security Research Team, NAI ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you're so special, why aren't you dead?"
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