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on a related note, is the act of decompiling jars legal if the software was obtained legally, ie bought?
by ta33 12y ago
on a related note, is the act of decompiling jars legal if the software was obtained legally, ie bought?
- evilsocket 12y agohttp://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60/is-reverse-engineering-and-using-parts-of-a-closed-source-application-legal http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60/is-...
- mrsteveman1 12y agoEven if you are allowed to reverse engineer software in certain cases, directly taking what you learned from the effort and using it to write other code by yourself is another matter. It's the sort of situation we have "clean room" reverse engineering[1] procedures for. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design