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AFAIU the second part of the ruling states that you don't need to warn/get permission by the author. Basically, you can fix it for your own consumption.

Surely you can't redistribute copyrighted material.



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.


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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