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Comment by jonhohle

8 hours ago

The compiled binary is protected and the property of the original company. The source code written by people doing decompilation is owned by the people doing the decompilation. That source code can compile to a lot of different binary representations, just like a lot of code representations (infinitely many) could compile to the original binary.

In fact, the goal of most decomp not to produce the same binary, that’s just used as a validation.

>is owned by the people doing the decompilation

True, but as a derivative work of the original source code they don't have rights to do anything with that code without infringing copyright.