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Subject: Re: source code can be retrieved from an engine

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:52:30 01/28/06

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On January 28, 2006 at 14:37:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 28, 2006 at 13:27:25, Arnon Yogev wrote:
>
>>
>>Ofcourse it is possible to use dissassemblers to rebuild some of the code from
>>the .exe file,
>>but they were talking about _Automatic_ ways to do it.
>>this is impossible.
>>on the other points I completely agree with you.
>>
>>Arnon.
>
>please see the following post:
>
>http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?481685
>
>I understand that it is possible not only to disassemble code but to get
>directly C code and not assembler code.
>
>Note that I read in this forum also that it is not illegal to do reverse
>engineering.
>
>Uri

If we talk about legality then here is a link that was given originally by Dann
Corbit in the second thread.

http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/LegalityOfDecompilation

I do not think that reverse engineering only to detect clones is illegal.
if we talk about other cases it is not clear to me based on the link.

Uri



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