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I believe that's called "free as in beer" not "free as in speech"

Scott is absolutely correct — in Galoob v Nintendo (1992) the supreme court established that users have a right to modify copyrighted works for their own use (but not necessarily re-distribtue them).

This software appears to have no license, which means the author (Mr. Henry) is indeed allowed to seek copyright protection. As I said above, copyright protection does not mean that it is against the law to de-compile the source.

I would advise Mr. Henry to seek the advice of a IP lawyer if he wants to properly protect his software. As well, it's probably a good idea to include a license.

As a programmer, I would never put an executable I couldn't see the source of into my app.
-Jason



> On Dec 29, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 29, 2014, at 12:44 PM, Lou Henry <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
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>> If you feel the need to decompile the code even though
>> WHAT is contained in it is not worth the trouble you are hereby formally
>> instructed to: Cease and Desist.
>
> Bullshit.
>
>> Jackbox and the code in it are
>> copyrighted.
>
> You seem to be a bit unclear on what exactly that means...
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