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I know of no country (or other jurisdiction) where a legal "right to decompile" exists.
by rabbitfang48 10y ago
I know of no country (or other jurisdiction) where a legal "right to decompile" exists.
- gsnedders 10y agoThe EU has a very, very limited right to decompile for the sake of interoperability. See Article 6 on http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31991L0250:EN:HTML http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
- kuschku 10y agoAnd for personal modifications, and so on. And "copying the decompiled source of the part of MS Word that reads .doc files" counts as covered, so, it's quite a lot. Especially with websites, where you might want to interact with, or write addons interacting with, WASM threatens those rights.
- vidarh 10y agoMany countries allow reverse engineering, and you could infer a "right to decompile" from that in some cases, but as far as I know none of them place any requirement on the source to make it easy. At most they legally protect someone who decides to run a disassembler or decompiler on a binary from prosecution or lawsuits (but only in as much as you don't use the result to violate copyright or other restrictions).