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Doesn't pretty much all closed-source proprietary software prohibit reverse engineering and redistribution?


Reverse engineering for interop is legal.


Do you have a source for that claim? I wasn't aware that was necessarily true.


DMCA Section 103(f).


But after you agreed to a contract promising you wouldn’t?


Not everywhere.




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