Software, reverse engineering and the law

Posted May 4, 2005 20:04 UTC (Wed) by MathFox (guest, #6104)
In reply to: Software, reverse engineering and the law by lacostej
Parent article: Software, reverse engineering and the law

For your first question: I can't say; IANAL and jurisdiction and licences are very important here. See a real lawyer.

I see no problems with a program that takes an interface specification and writes out a skeleton implementation of the interface. (As long as it is an original work that doesn't infringe patents.) There is a snag here: A judge will consider the output from your program a "derivative work" from the input. Running the program on a third party library could be against its license conditions.