alt Hacker NewsThe most interesting part of that is the admission that they used decompilers to reverse engineer the codecs. I wonder if makign that output freely available is legal.
The most interesting part of that is the admission that they used decompilers to reverse engineer the codecs. I wonder if makign that output freely available is legal.
Reverse engineering for interoperability is generally legal. Even if not, copyright does not follow the "fruit of the poisoned tree" idea, so if the new code isn't substantially similar to the original, it doesn't matter.