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Reverse engineering is allowed under French law, there are specific legal exemptions around that. It's common to see EULA/license/contracts with clauses that p
by user5994461 5y ago
Reverse engineering is allowed under French law, there are specific legal exemptions around that.
It's common to see EULA/license/contracts with clauses that prohibit reverse engineering, these clauses are void in France and many other jurisdictions.
Article L122-6-1 https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000028345224/2021-08-30 https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...
- coderdd 5y agoIANAL but EU reverse engineering exception is granted for purposes of interoperability as I remember? Think API, protocol, file format. You can't reverse engineer and share random internals.
- ElFitz 5y agoIn the EU, and probably elsewhere, there are entire engineering shops of which the one and only purpose is to reverse engineer competitors’ features and figure out a legal way to get around patents and replicate those features. No interoperability there. Some people I know do that for a living in the auto industry.
- kergonath 5y agoThere is some variation within the EU, with different national laws. In French law at least you’re right: reverse engineering is allowed only for interoperability and you’re not allowed to distribute decompiled code.