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I didn't say it would infringe on anything just that it would be a derivative. Maybe that was a bad example though, but do we really want to disallow opensourc

I didn't say it would infringe on anything just that it would be a derivative. Maybe that was a bad example though, but do we really want to disallow opensource project from extending proprietary software without the blessing of the copyright owner? Because that is the other side of the coin.

SXX 11y ago
It's depend on what you mean as "extending": official module/plugin or process memory patching. Some example would be helpful if you seriously want to discuss it. Though for officially supported add ons system of proprietary products usually state what license you can or can't use. All kind of tools that access and patch process memory are not in danger because most of time they modify process state via 3rd party OS APIs and they do not interact with programs they patching. In same time changes that patcher do within process can't go under GPL and fact that developers keep licensing that code under open source licenses doesn't change the fact it's break EULA.