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> It's perfectly fine for me to develop programming skills by reading any code regardless of the license. I'd be inclined to agree with this, but whenever a hi
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
> It's perfectly fine for me to develop programming skills by reading any code regardless of the license.
I'd be inclined to agree with this, but whenever a high profile leak of source code happens, reading that code can have dire consequences for reverse engineers. It turns clean room reverse engineering into something derivative, as if the code that was read had the ability to infected whatever the programmer wrote later.
A situation involving the above developed in the ReactOS project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit