Wine disassembly and reverse engineering rules.

[Kai Blin]

On Sunday 05 August 2007 17:27:23 you wrote:

> Thanks for your comments Kai.

My pleasure.

> > It's also not allowed to break other laws while developing software.
> > Where would you draw the line? Disassembling software is (almost always)
> > illegal. Killing people is illegal. Should both be in the development
> > guide? I would assume common sense would tell people that they should
> > only do things that are legal.
>
> I thing killing is a bit off topic :-)

Sure. I was exaggerating. :)

> However i do get your point about making it clear. It would be difficult
> to handle. OK, but changing the text i referred to would be a good start
> though.
>
> The text could be changed to (or similar):
>
> "Disassembling native Windows DLLs is not allowed in the Wine project
> due to legal implications. However, this does not change much, as
> disassembling native Windows DLLs is virtually always useless, as as
> technique disassemly is usually used to find out why the application is
> crashing in an otherwise unexplainable way."

That would probably help. Feel free to send a patch to the website.

Cheers,
Kai

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