Joe,
To say outright that reverse engineering or disassembling is a violation is
not exactly correct. Reverese engineering falls under fair use. Reverse
engineering is a defense even against claims of misappropriaton of trade
secrets. Here are a couple of links that talk about cases of reverse
engineering.
John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co
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http://www.tht.com/VUartW93Software.htmhttp://www.angenehm.com/secrets.html
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>In all cases that I know of, one may not disassemble or decompile the
>software, and to do so violates the license terms. One cannot modify the
>software either in *most* cases. Source code normally (there are
>exceptions) does not accompany the code.
