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- noun The act, or the result of
decompiling - noun The
output of adecompiler
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"decompilation" -- which is basically taking apart someone else's program so that you can understand it and compete with it.
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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Fair use allows for parody, commentary, and criticism, and also for "decompilation" of computer programs so that Microsoft's competitors can reverse engineer Word's features in order to make sure their program can convert Word files.
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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With regards to decompilation, depending on the way code is generated, it may or may not be a problem.
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If the law were read literally, decompilation would hardly seem to be a fair use.
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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The exclusive right conferred by copyright does not include the right to prevent criticism, parody, classroom copying, decompilation of computer programs, and so on.
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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Along the way, a number of additions have been made, on request, sometimes for very general requirements, but occasionally for supporting special uses, and the decompilation has been improved considerably.
Simple Talk rss feed Andrew Clarke 2010
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This of course proves once again that relying on function decompilation is NOT a good idea.
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If you're now thinking that only a small circle of folks who actually know IL Assembly Language will see and understand your source code, remember that the decompilation doesn't stop there.
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Using the Dotfuscator Community Edition, this article will teach you all about obfuscation (and a little about decompilation), the types of obfuscation commonly available, and some of the issues you will need to address when working with an obfuscator.
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To guard against accessing the raw data via decompilation, you could always normalize the values.
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