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Re:Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open sourc... by skypeopensource on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:38PM (#3920498)
You are wrong. Decompiling is just allowing research deeper in skype-black-box. Project itself is here https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs
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Re:Microsoft sends GitHub DMCA shutdown for Skype open sourc... by grimboy on Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:10AM (#3922343)
If you want to stay within the law my understanding is that you need to distribute patches against decompiled Skype rather than decompiled Skype with patches applied, otherwise you're distributing a derivative work. This may still be a legal grey area though. IANAL, you ANAL, we all ANAL and that.
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