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dathinab on Oct 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, i...

Yes, through you might(?) distribute a tool to help people "fix" their thing themself.

Like bundling a open source decompiler, recompiler, code to work around decompilation restrictions and a patch into a single binary you can then use to fix the actual binary.

aleclm on Oct 9, 2021 [–]

Usually, to patch a program, a binary patch is enough. Decompiling and recompiling is hard (even that's what we do at rev.ng!) :)

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