Comment by ipsod
11 hours ago
Clean room might get you past copyrighted code, but surely it won't get you past trademarks or copyrighted artistic work?
11 hours ago
Clean room might get you past copyrighted code, but surely it won't get you past trademarks or copyrighted artistic work?
Most of these projects carefully distribute only the source code representation of the binaries, for this reason, relying on the consumer to acquire / own the art assets and copyrighted material (logos, trademarks, etc.).
The code assets are just as copyright encumbered as the art assets.
None of the original source code exists in these projects. It’s all created from scratch.
Copyright for this new code is owned by the person doing decompilation. No one knows how similar to the original it is or not, just that it compiles to the same output.
Edit to clarify: by not exist, I mean it is not publicly available.
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Yes, I agree with you (see my sibling post), but it's not what the post I replied to was saying.