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@ 翠星石
2025-02-27 10:12:01
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcu4r6pt94plck34vtw9t3zj974k0vl0z8x9gew5vdp2ukw3ekr4qct2mzm nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqhr8vmrevmzqh6urhcrvdwr2p03qg48x3mzd03gnhjjju5me7uzcsmglhsw Decompiling proprietary software doesn't liberate it, as even without the DMCA, the result is still proprietary and is not the original source code.
There's nothing illegal about decompiling a binary to reverse engineer it, although the same person who decompiles it can only document the datastructures etc and not write the replacement program (which is a problem as usually only one person is interested in writing a replacement).
Under the DMCA, writing a replacement program may be illegal though.