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>Speaking from German/probably EU POV, fixing errors via decompiling is ok, especially if maintainance is halted.
>I am quite certain that anything sold to existing vfp customers patching a somewhere installed version would be totally ok.
>Selling a patched version - esp to non-vfp customers - is clearly murky ;-)))
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I know of one case here (not VFP) where the manufacturer has obsoleted a product.
Additional user licenses cannot be purchased, but an experienced programmer can readily hack that.
A later version is available from the manufacturer (at a price) that allows the purchase of a additional user licenses. People have offered to pay me to do the hack and I've refused.
If the manufacturer had not offered a solution, I might have thought differently, but still would have hesitated.