You said: "You misunderstand the law. It doesn't have to be explicitly prohibited in the EULA. You need to look at who owns the copyright and what rights they are keeping and what they are giving up. "

in a reaction upon the request of someone else decompiling a piece of code with a licenced decompiler. In this case copyrights are not applicable as the decompilation software is not copied.

In terms of usage, the EULA might say something else, but it would not surprise me that local laws would override the EULA on the specific usage of the decompiler. Specifically european laws do differ quite a bit from american laws as Oracle and Microsoft have experienced more than once in terms of their licensing.

Walter,






>Specifically US law, but many countries have agreed on copyright protection laws. EULA and copyrights are very different things. As always, an intellectual property attorney in the proper country should be consulted.
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>>Which law? US law? Let me remind you that this is an international forum where different laws apply depending on the country you're operating in. There are several examples (e.g. MS and Oracle) who found out the hard way that their EULA's and MS laws are not universally recognised.