On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 23:48:05 UTC, Artur Skawina
wrote:
"Let's look inside works we can't legally use, just in case
there's some usable part inside" is not a viable option. Really.
You have one team take a look at it to help them document the
file format, then a separate team use that file format
documentation to write an alternate implementation.
Then it is aiding in reverse engineering the file format instead
of creating a derivative work of the implementation, as long as
the two teams don't communicate outside that file format spec doc.
