hank williams wrote: > And I think it might very well be illegal to disassemble the compiler. > I am not sure, but it, at least *might* be.
I'm pretty sure it is, from what I have read. I am admittedly devoid of authoritative knowledge on the subject. > But disassembling swf files, which are clearly your own property, cant > be illegal. > > As I said in an earlier post, this would be like Microsoft telling > Macromedia to be carful with how they used, or examined or reverse > engineered the output from the Microsoft Visual Studio compiler. > Compiler vendors cannot claim any ownership regarding how the > resulting compiled code is used. This would put everyone at the mercy > of Microsoft, including Macromedia. Of course, what you say in that respect makes total sense. I still don't think we need to be quite so aggressive though, this is an open discussion - all points of view are welcome. Outside of the legalities, everyone wants to get along :) > It is equivalently silly to suggest that we cannot disassemble swfs to > figure out what the new byte codes are. Though, I have to agree that > if they have stated they are going to release the spec, time is > probably better spent on things like lexical analysis vs code > generation. Yup, but as previously stated .. that's less fun. Personally speaking, I get immense pleasure from reverse engineering stuff .. never in an evil way, though ;) - IE _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
