>>Hi all,
>>i have come across one of our largest clients (a government client no less) that seem to have, at certain sites, taken it upon themselves to decompile our software and use sections of the code to build their own add-on products for internal use.
>>my interest was piqued when i was told by a user about an issue they were having with the software that was not a feature of it. upon investigation and aquiring the software i discovered that our own program files and table structures had been used within the project without any permission or knowledge to us.
>>what can be done to prove this decompilation, and what steps should be taken there after? keep in mind i am from Australia. Any help would be greatly appreciated as i am programmer at heart, not a solicitor. :)
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>>many thanks,
>>Jordan
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>You need to take a look at what your contracts say about this case... is the code owned by you or your client?

The contract is purely a user license contract and the code and the IP belong to our company. i know of Refox and use it for our projects, but unfortunately it seems to have been either by-passed or the code accessed another way (a previous developer of ours now works for the client involved).
So as you can see i am very eager to put a stop to this through a legal means as i see that it is the only way under the current circumstances. Any idea where i might start to look for information that outlines the steps involved to prove the software is ours?

Jordan