>Then it makes it potentially legal for him to do and use, along with potentially other Chinese.
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>It is illegal for people in the U.S. to download and use, and probably also illegal for most other countries with commerce treaties with the U.S., including European countries.

Speaking from European country, I think buying a patched/error resolved version would be legal as long as I already hold a current license.
I woukd CERTAINLY be allowed to decompile to fix errors in products not maintained any more, which is the case for vfp.