>From the VFP 9 EULA:
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>4. SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. The software is engineered to allow you to use it in certain ways. You must comply with these technical limitations. For more information about them, see the software documentation. You may not:
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> * work around technical limitations in the software,
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> * reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation,
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>It's possible that the law is different in China and would allow this. But Microsoft has been cracking down on software piracy there.

Maybe Fox software won the case in USA's laws but I think Foxbase was an illegal copy of Dbase...