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

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

When a physical item is faulty and the manufacturer isn't interested in
solving the problem, it is always possible to pick the equipment apart and
try to solve the problem. A law forbidding decompilation means that a
company might invest large sums of money in a software that turns out to
be incompatible with another software etc. In Europe, the view is that you
should have a similar right to solve the problem yourself.

/Per W

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Daniel Glenfield wrote:

> 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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