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jdswaintoday at 1:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Not a lawyer, but I'd expect that decompilation creates a derived work which is still subject to the copyright of the original.


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unified101today at 3:00 AM

If you engineer a clean room process, it does not. Already proven with an open source project that went from GPL to MIT via clean room (chardet).