EULA discussion

[craigbrass]

I am actually wondering how enforceable the EULA is to be honest when it says you can't reverse engineer. See Reverse engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Jamie Edwards]

The EULA is enforceable. Whiteroom engineering is and always has been legal, but the EULA specifically forbids the decrypting of Zend and IonCube encoded files (which is in place to prevent copyright violations).

Although Wikipedia is vaguely correct in this case, I would advise against basing your "knowledge" on it.

Originally Posted by EULA

5.4. You must not reverse engineer or decrypt any portion of compiled and/or obfuscated source code. This includes but is not limited to 'Zend encoded' and 'IonCube encoded' portions of PHP code and any compiled binaries.

[Sheep]

I personnaly use 2 terms:
1) "Reverse Engineering": method for analysing a structure (example: i see $dbCore->query in the code, so i guess that the class implements this method... this is basic reverse engineering)
2) "Binary Reversing" (decrypting a compiled file), this one is illegal
(i'm talking from a French point of view)

[Jamie Edwards]

Originally Posted by abailey

I would think you would just need to recreate the DB structure in SQL and change the provider in Kayako

Unfortunately not, because SWIFT relies on a number of MySQL specific features.

[craigbrass]

Although Wikipedia is vaguely correct in this case, I would advise against you don't base your "knowledge" on it.

reverse engineering legal - Google Search shows a few cases where it has been ruled as legal pretty much. A EULA can't overrule this sort of thing...

[Jamie Edwards]

Originally Posted by craigbrass

reverse engineering legal - Google Search shows a few cases where it has been ruled as legal pretty much. A EULA can't overrule this sort of thing...

Like I said above, whiteroom reverse engineering has always been legal. Reversing technical copyright protection mechanisms is not.