Re: [Dev-C++] please help me - Decompilation not illegal in Europe

[Daniel G. <sp...@ho...>]

I remember being told by someone (and he would know these things) that 
decompilation is NOT illegal in Europe despite seeing those "Decompilation 
is illegal" messages on the boot screen of many PCs. This is because Europe 
got fed up with American companies not making the source code available to 
software so they amended / did not pass the law that makes it illegal.

I don't know any more than this, does anyone else know about it?


>From: Scott Simontis <age...@co...>
>To: mahmood khaksefidi <mah...@ya...>,  
>dev...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] please help me
>Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:59:00 -0500
>
>mahmood khaksefidi wrote:
>
>>hello all
>>I have devcpp
>>i wish that change file.exe to file.c or file.cpp
>>how can do i?
>>thanks
>>best regards
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>I don't see reason to do this. You have the source code if you need it. I 
>think what you are talking about is if you have some .exe program on your 
>computer someone else made. The only way to see the code is to reverse 
>engineer or decompile it, both of which are illegal. However, you can look 
>online to see if it has the source code. If it is udner the GNU lisence, 
>you get full source code with the application.

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