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Reply #4 Posted on: January 02, 2009, 06:30:18 pm |
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It is in the USA. It goes against Copyright Laws(I think).
Wrong. (...) reverse engineering of software is protected in the U.S. by the fair use exception in copyright law. (I don't really think it's illegal in China either.)
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Reply #6 Posted on: January 03, 2009, 11:07:34 am |
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You just can't redistribute them once you have. Or redistribute them at all, for that matter.
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Reply #10 Posted on: January 09, 2009, 12:29:21 pm |
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That'd still be redistribution. I'm pretty sure you can lay a hat on the street and have people put money in it while you reverse engineer something.
And Retro, they say a lot of things. It's so people feel a tad safer using something with no walls.
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"That is the single most cryptic piece of code I have ever seen." -Master PobbleWobble "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Friends of Voltaire
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Reply #11 Posted on: January 10, 2009, 06:29:58 am |
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Thing is, though decompiling GM7 games is illegal according to YYG.
Whether EULAs legally stand isn't clear. In some countries it may be forbidden to impose EULAs at all, while in others, certain clauses may be unfair and therefore invalid. Restricting your right to fair use is probably an unfair clause. Actually, "decompiling" Game Maker games doesn't count as decompilation at all (except for the runner): the data is there, just not organised in an accessible form.
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Reply #12 Posted on: January 10, 2009, 10:47:49 am |
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That'd still be redistribution. I'm pretty sure you can lay a hat on the street and have people put money in it while you reverse engineer something. I must try that Game_Boy, you're inspiring me to write a decompiler I've already written 3 different methods of debug forcing.
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Reply #14 Posted on: January 13, 2009, 02:51:30 pm |
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I bet I could just take a Game Maker game and run it through 7-zip to get a GMK.
EDIT: Also, FYI Game Maker is made in Delphi. ^_^
No, it's not that simple. But yes, it's written in Delphi. The game is loaded from the spare, unused bytes at the end of the file.
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