Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 14:36:52 08/29/04
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On August 29, 2004 at 14:40:15, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >On August 29, 2004 at 09:00:04, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>On August 29, 2004 at 07:54:42, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >> >>>On August 29, 2004 at 04:43:00, Andrew Williams wrote: >>> >>>>On August 29, 2004 at 03:16:21, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 28, 2004 at 20:05:49, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On August 28, 2004 at 14:05:08, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I also commend chess program authors, commercial or not, to put some disassembly >>>>>>>paragraph inside the readme and to remove symbols from the executable. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Gerd >>>>>> >>>>>>Hi Gerd: >>>>>>What do you mean by "put some disassembly paragraph inside the readme"? >>>>>> >>>>>>Dan H. >>>>> >>>>>I am not a lawyer (IANAL), something like: >>>>> >>>>>"It is not permitted to disassemble or reverse engenier this program" >>>> >>>>Why would you suggest that? I don't understand? >>>> >>>>Andrew >>> >>>Because disassembling is likely to be an act to spy out a program, which is not >>>open source. Of course if a severe suspicion is claimed by someone, that a >>>program is a clone, an independent legal instance is allowed to disassemble to >>>check the facts, if the autor is not cooperative to show/explain his sources. >>> >>>I can't imagine that some commercial authors are happy if somebody else >>>disassembles their program for academic reasons. >>> >>>Gerd >> >>Gerd, >> >>disassembling for purposes of finding information is legal and cannot be >>prevented. >> >>It would be legal (though incredibly hard) for someone to disassemble one of the >>commercial programs and publish his findings. >> >>Vas > >Really? Thanks for the information. >If i'll ever release a program, i'll try the best to hide all my stuff. >I guess each fifth byte is probably 0x66 or 0x0f ;-) > >Gerd Put a few jumps into the middle of instructions. That will give the disassembler something to think about. Dan H.
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