On Thursday 03 April 2008, Jeffrey Watts wrote:

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Luke -Jr [email protected] wrote:

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Whether civil or criminal is irrelevant: it is still in violation of the law.

There are no injured parties in this circumstance (as the principal author has said it's fine), and thus this distinction is critical.

The principal author in this case does not hold a complete copyright on the program. There are many copyright holders, and every single one of them (including the deceased) needs to give permission to make this legal.