Paul wrote: > Unless I'm mistaken, reverse engineering stands for recreating source > code from executable.
I imagine that reverse engineering is a wider concept than that. You can for example reverse engineer a protocol. I have no idea what the reverse engineering tools might do with GNU Go or at what level they are applied, but the results might be interesting. > In this case you chose a wrong target as GNU Go is distributed as > source code, there are even no official binaries. Well, even if the reverse engineering is done at a low level, it's probably useful to have ground truth available, to see how well the tools are working. > > I was wondering if I am allowed to do such a study. Thanks a lot! > > You are allowed to do everything permitted by the GNU GPL. We might > mind certain things on the ``please don't do that'' level, but the only > legal barrier is GNU GPL, which is quite permissive anyway. And in this particular case I don't see any reason to mind at all. The only thing I would ask for is to show us the results if anything interesting should turn up. /Gunnar _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
