“To ensure you steer clear of any legal risk of reverse engineering, it should be performed only to the extent of allowances, such as for accessing ideas, facts, and functional concepts contained in the product.” I doubt MicroFocus received allowances from IBM. Especially considering they were kicked out of the preferred vendor program for violating other agreements to not try and migrate people off the mainframe.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, November 23, 2022, 1:08 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 19:47, Bill Johnson < 00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Reverse engineering to get the source code is illegal. > That's a remarkably broad and unsubstantiated claim. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
