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Re:Cider: Native Execution of iOS Apps on Android by mschuster91 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:30AM (#7743321)
Base the company in Germany, problem solved. Here it is legal to reverse engineer and reimplement stuff, as long as you're doing it to obtain compatibility with other apps/platforms.
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Re:Cider: Native Execution of iOS Apps on Android by hwh on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:22AM (#7743539)
Stated in such a general way, this is not true. It's just the case that some contractual preventions of reverse engineering might be invalid. But the moment you distribute something, patent laws can become a big problem.
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