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That still remains to be seen. A DMCA is not a court order. Anyone can file one and take a repository offline for two weeks.
by breakingcups 6y ago
That still remains to be seen. A DMCA is not a court order. Anyone can file one and take a repository offline for two weeks.
- moonchild 6y agoYes but the code was clearly derived directly from a decompiled binary; not ‘clean room’ reverse engineering. Hence, illegal, regardless of whether a dmca takedown notice is filed.
- xyzzy_plugh 6y agoThat doesn't make it illegal, there are plenty of jurisdictions where non-clean-room reverse engineering is perfectly legal.
- charcircuit 6y agoBut distributing it without a license from the copyright holder is.
- jagger27 6y agoDistributing what, exactly? It required you already owned a copy of the game to install/build it.
- charcircuit 6y agoDistributing whatever was in the repo. Requiring a copy of the game doesn't magically make it legal. A modded game is a derivative work.
- nl 6y agoDeriving something from a decompiled binary isn't illegal in itself.
- ThatPlayer 6y agoThat still leaves it as a derivative work, which is protected from copying and distribution by copyright.