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A decompilation is not clean room, nor is it "created from scratch". If that was the case, you could just compile a program to remove the copyright, because the

• jonhohle 2mo ago
  The compiled binary is protected and the property of the original company. The source code written by people doing decompilation is owned by the people doing the decompilation. That source code can compile to a lot of different binary representations, just like a lot of code representations (infinitely many) could compile to the original binary. In fact, the goal of most decomp not to produce the same binary, that’s just used as a validation.
  • charcircuit 2mo ago
    >is owned by the people doing the decompilation True, but as a derivative work of the original source code they don't have rights to do anything with that code without infringing copyright.