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Re:Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilat... by AshamedCaptain on Sunday April 23, 2023 @12:59PM (#35678016)
"But Your Honor, I'm not distributing copies of the copyrighted program, just another program which happens to generate the copyrighted program bit-by-bit! All my original creation, even though I was literally looking at the copyrighted program while developing it..."

Do you think that I can just gzip gplprogram.c and then redistribute gplprogram.c.gz under the "Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License"?

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Re:Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilat... by m-p-3 on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:05PM (#35678089)
Technically you would be distributing your own implementation, not the original source code. Copyright does allow you to do that. They just applied the concept of reproducible build on top.
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