Wine policy question: What is considered "reverse engineering"/what is acceptable?

[Jerome Leclanche]

I thought reverse engineering was only relevant to MS code? As in
reverse engineering of windows dlls and so on; another application
would be irrelevant.

That's what I understood from it anyway.

J.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Daniel Santos
<javatroubadour at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was recently attempting to isolate the cause of a hang in Lord of the
> Rings Online and had it in a debugger.  I mentioned this on IRC and was told
> that I was "reverse engineering" and any patch I came up with would not be
> accepted.  I find this rather confusing and would like to better understand
> the "dos and don'ts" of wine development.  Is this documented anywhere?
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> If it matters any, the license agreement says that you may not reverse
> engineering it including "decompiling or disassembling" but it does not
> specifically mention using a debugger (although viewing disassembly from the
> debugger would obviously be covered).  My aim was only to attempt to
> determine which thread(s) were hanging so I could isolate my logging to
> those thread(s) and try to figure out what was going wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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Adys