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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: CloseView
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Date: 19 Oct 89 01:36:22 GMT
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Most software license agreements say that you won't disassemble the
code or reverse engineer the product.

For example, here is a section from section 3 of the Microsoft Software
License:

	"You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble
	the SOFTWARE."

Since you work at Microsoft, you should be careful about using company
equipment to disassemble Apple code, or who knows what lawsuits could
result?  Microsoft would probably not want to argue in court that such
agreements are invalid, after all!

						Tim Smith

ps: of course, I bought MacNosy only to look at my own code. Doesn't
everybody? :-)