On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 06:45, George Birbilis wrote: > I don't consider viewing an assembly's publicly exposed methods/fields etc. > to be reverse engineering > If you decompile though and copy/paste code parts etc. then it is reverse > engineering and could potentially cause problems similar to the Linux-SCO > stuff
Reverse engineering includes more than decompiling object code. Writing a test program, executing it under .NET, and getting Mono to behave the same way *also* counts as reverse engineering. And it's because of reverse engineering that typeof(System.Enum).IsClass is false (that's what .NET does), even though all the documentation suggests it should be true. Just grep the mcs source for LAMESPEC. These are also places where we needed to observe .NET's behavior to ensure compatibility. Writing test programs and observing behavior is a form of reverse engineering. Period. Fortunately reverse engineering is perfectly legal, legally protected, and necessary for competition. - Jon _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
