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Software, reverse engineering and the law

Software, reverse engineering and the law

Posted May 4, 2005 22:08 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Software, reverse engineering and the law by lacostej
Parent article: Software, reverse engineering and the law

The only one who can do something illegal is person who wrote client program. If there were nothing in library license preventing this then everything should be legal.

Writing such a tool is not illegal - it's usage can be illegal if library in question has really strict license.


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