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AFAIK, DMCA allows reverse engineering for compatibility purposes. IANAL, though.

• jhy 4y ago
  If it was decompiled, that's not really reverse engineering though. So I'm not confident that the DMCA carve out would apply here.
  • thamer 4y ago
    Decompilation is very much part of reverse engineering. The two are not the same, but disassembling and decompiling code are extremely common techniques used to reverse engineer a program, algorithm, or protocol.
    • bigiain 4y ago
      That's clearly "hacker true". I wonder if it's "lawyer true" as well? It could very well not be.