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Re:Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0.0 has been released by ur-whale on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:42PM (#38222758)
> I dunno, this looks a lot like decompiled code.

And what if it is? At what level is using decompiled code copyright violation as opposed to just replicating an algorithm?

Re:Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0.0 has been released by Karellen on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:10PM (#38223123)
Re:Dungeon KeeperFX 1.0.0 has been released by Supermancho on Friday November 10, 2023 @03:12PM (#38223898)
> Connectix's successful appeal maintained that the direct disassembly and observation of proprietary code was necessary because there was no other way to determine its behavior.

If it is the disassembled code, nothing will happen. There are no damages to award, so there's no reason that this would even make it into court. If it did go to court (as part of a larger case), the artifact decompiled would be proprietary. However it would be impossible to prove (and difficult to convince anyone) that the code was directly from that artifact.