Looks like they decided that waving the DMCA at people who post Tru64 bugs
on bugtraq is not a good idea after all ...
Wonder what Bruce Perens has to say about it :)
-srs
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> HP statement:
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> HP nastygram invoking DMCA from MOnday:
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> HP backs down on DMCA warning
> By Declan McCullagh
> August 1, 2002, 5:58 PM PT
>
> WASHINGTON--Hewlett-Packard has backed away from legal threats it made
> against security analysts who publicized flaws in the company's
> software.
>
> In a statement released late Thursday, HP emphasized that it would not
> use a controversial copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright
> Act (DMCA), to pursue a loosely organized team of researchers who
> demonstrated a bug in the company's Tru64 Unix operating system.
>
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