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First time I hear about this, it's interesting to have written all of this out. Now this makes me think of game decompilation projects, which would seem to fal

First time I hear about this, it's interesting to have written all of this out. Now this makes me think of game decompilation projects, which would seem to fall in the same legal area as code that would be generated by something like Malus. Different code, same end result (binary or api). We definitely need to know what the legal limits are and should be

quadruple 7mo ago
Semi-related, someone made basically Malus-for-San-Andreas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBQJYMKmwAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBQJYMKmwAs
- LelouBil 7mo ago
  That's fascinating ! I think it's worth posting as its own submission (if it wasn't already).
throawayonthe 7mo ago
i think most game decompilation projects are either openly illegal or operate on "provide your own binary" and build automatic tooling around it
- LelouBil 7mo ago
  Yes, because we have clear precedent that distributing Art (the assets) is illegal by current copyright law. But do we have precedent (in any country) that distributing different source code that compiles to the exact same binary is illegal ?