you. rock. thanks! :) i'm not sure about polish laws, but in the US reverse engineering is a pretty common practice. if you really want to look into it more to cover your ass, look at the wine project who are reverse engineering the whole win32 api... i imagine they have some published documentation about the legality of this, if not published on thier main site i'm sure you could find some stuff in their mailing list archives.
i'm more and more impressed with the pd community every day :)
-josh
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Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
hi all,
cyclone now loads max binary files, which is nice in itself -- but is it legal? Perhaps I am doing something very stupid?
Hardly any reverse engineering involved -- just looking into the files, and comparing with same patches saved as max text -- was pretty obvious, actually.
So I will wait now for your opinions before uploading a snapshot.
Krzysztof
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