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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.software-eng,comp.sys.mac.programmer,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: Software Copyright Law
Keywords: European Community, copyright, reverse engineering
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Date: 7 Apr 90 15:42:43 GMT
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dennis@goofy.UUCP (Dennis Godfrey) writes:

[saying this is a Bad Thing]

|2.	Any type of reverse engineering of someone else's object code
|	will only be permitted if you get a specific written license
|	from the someone else.  Reverse engineering in this context
|	means such things as using a disassembler to try and figure out
|	what their object code does, taking memory dumps, single
|	stepping through code, monitoring comms. lines and so on.

Why is this a Bad Thing? Wouldn't this be the same thing as publishing
derivative works, which is already a no-no? Or does this imply that one
can't even disassemble for personal use?
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***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean