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Comment by xyzzy_plugh

5 years ago

That doesn't make it illegal, there are plenty of jurisdictions where non-clean-room reverse engineering is perfectly legal.

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charcircuit  5 years ago

But distributing it without a license from the copyright holder is.

  • jagger27  5 years ago

    Distributing what, exactly? It required you already owned a copy of the game to install/build it.

    • charcircuit  5 years ago

      Distributing whatever was in the repo. Requiring a copy of the game doesn't magically make it legal. A modded game is a derivative work.