bloodsong opened this issue on Sep 14, 2002 ยท 10 posts
ockham posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 7:45 PM
Here's the part that throws the fear of God into my copyright-loving and somewhat law-abiding soul: In the first paragraph of the EULA, the term "Program" is defined like so: Curious Labs, Inc.(Company), a California-based Corporation, provides the computer software and associated proprietary file formats (Program)...... [Note that "Program" includes the software and the formats.] Then later on, You cannot reverse engineer, decompile, debug, disassemble, circumvent security features, or interfere with normal Program functionality and operation (or attempt any of these actions) for any reason whatsoever without express prior written consent of Company. Any such activity performed without the required consent is a violation of this EULA........ Since "Program" was defined to include the file formats, this prohibition seems to include "reverse engineering" in the proprietary files as well as the .EXE. If there's an exception, it may hinge on a precise definition of "reverse engineering", but that isn't given explicitly in the EULA.