Comment by breakingcups
5 years ago
That still remains to be seen. A DMCA is not a court order. Anyone can file one and take a repository offline for two weeks.
5 years ago
That still remains to be seen. A DMCA is not a court order. Anyone can file one and take a repository offline for two weeks.
Yes but the code was clearly derived directly from a decompiled binary; not ‘clean room’ reverse engineering. Hence, illegal, regardless of whether a dmca takedown notice is filed.
Deriving something from a decompiled binary isn't illegal in itself.
That still leaves it as a derivative work, which is protected from copying and distribution by copyright.
That doesn't make it illegal, there are plenty of jurisdictions where non-clean-room reverse engineering is perfectly legal.
But distributing it without a license from the copyright holder is.
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