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In the U.S. it is perfectly legal to reverse anything that you obtained legally.
by bdibs 7y ago
In the U.S. it is perfectly legal to reverse anything that you obtained legally.
- canistel 7y agoIn that case, considering that even the undocumented methods are exported from the respective DLLs, these can easily be identified and their workings can be figured out by perusing the machine code. Access to source code, stolen or otherwise, is not really required. Also, as compatibility is ReactOS' goal, even identical bugs can't be credible evidence.
- opportune 7y agoReversing is one thing, distributing copies of reverse engineered IP is another. I am pretty sure that is not a good idea unless the terms under which you obtained the product explicitly allow it.
- d1zzy 7y agoNot if you agree to an EULA that explicitly prohibits it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd#Blizzard_takedown_demand_and_lawsuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd#Blizzard_takedown_demand... And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Baystate_Technologies,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Baystate_Technologie.... Note that pretty much any EULA I've seen in the past 10 years has had an anti reverse engineering clause.