discuss: OCLC Office of Research Open Source License

[Chris Gray]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Terrall,Tom wrote:

> Thanks for your comments, Forrest!
> 
> One of our java programmers informs me that java
> bytecode is highly modifiable by using a java decompiler to regenerate the
> source code.

There are obfuscators to make this harder, and de-obfuscators to counter 
these, and so on, just like the good old bad old days of copy-protected 
diskettes.

-- 

Chris "I used to write binary patches too" Gray

VM Architect, ACUNIA


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