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Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem by transpute on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:09AM (#41755365)
> decompiling

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/101689/can-you-legal...

  If you look at a decompiled code and are influenced in how you write your code by the decompiled code, this is probably a "derivative work" of the original program and not just "reverse engineering" from the way that the computer program works. Copyright for software protects the decompiled code that is written, as a literary work, and anything derived from that decompiled code is also protected..

  [clean-room reverse engineering] One group examines the source to write the specs and rundown. Another to make the code again, with no people from group 1 taking to them but for the spec sheet
> do we need better tools to make it more practical?

Good question, perhaps others can comment. The challenge is likely economics, not tooling.

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Re:We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem by gomerspiles on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:19AM (#41755400)
This is GPL code so decompiling isn't necessary or the problem.

Accepting over the wall low quality code and having a submitter for it who may know nothing about it makes it difficult to work any of this low quality code into the mainline kernel via its resource starved processes.

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