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US government makes it legal to reverse engineer code
- trav4225 10y agoI wonder about the interplay of this with the DMCA. I suspect that the statement that it's "legal to reverse-engineer code" may still have significant caveats... Then again (thankfully ;-), IANAL.
- TYPE_FASTER 10y agoNot surprising a company producing obfuscation tools would use this for advertising. My question is, does this reduce the risk of getting sued for creating IP after looking at previously existing IP via reverse engineering or other methods?
- zzalpha 10y agoAnd yet thanks to Oracle v Google it may become impossible to use information gained from reverse engineering to create a compatible replacement without violating copyright. One step forward, two steps back...
- tzs 10y agoOracle v Google won't change much, because the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit does not set copyright precedent. Details in earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11377318