you shouldn't care about your game being turned back to source. anyone passionate enough will be abl

you shouldn't care about your game being turned back to source. anyone passionate enough will be able to read the assembly itself and lift it up to usable code no matter what the language or obfuscation.

PerkseyOP•2/22/22, 5:03 PM

if you are distributing anything that can make a user's machine do something, that user will be able to replicate what that does.

Lyris the Kitori•2/22/22, 5:03 PM

Lyris the Kitori•2/22/22, 5:04 PM

well in some countries its illegal to reverse engineer like that, but in most, its legal and people will

PerkseyOP•2/22/22, 5:04 PM

in those countries using a IL decompiler would also be illegal

PerkseyOP•2/22/22, 5:04 PM

as it's exactly the same

Lyris the Kitori•2/22/22, 5:05 PM

iirc i think it is yeah, reverse engineering code even clean room isnt really considered legal, as you dont own rights to said software to do so, but im no legal expert, ive just heard stories of people being arrested for this

Supine•2/22/22, 5:08 PM

Company gave you assembly.

Supine•2/22/22, 5:08 PM

It's your choice to run it, or read it.

PerkseyOP•2/22/22, 5:09 PM

reading assembly is fine

PerkseyOP•2/22/22, 5:09 PM

but in almost every case you don't have a license to transform it

PerkseyOP•2/22/22, 5:10 PM

so you don't have a license to turn IL to C# (unless you do obviously, as is the case for open source)

PerkseyOP•2/22/22, 5:10 PM

etc

ChickenSystems•2/22/22, 10:51 PM

Nobody even has to read assembly with (like probably 2009 and up) tools.

ChickenSystems•2/22/22, 10:52 PM

IDA and Ghidra can both decompile (not just disassemble) binaries of nearly all flavor.

ChickenSystems•2/22/22, 10:54 PM

C/C++ vs C# for RE protection is largely just people squabbling over semantics in my opinion (as someone who did a ton of old Xbox/Xbox 360 RE and has experience in other RE projects).

LLyris the Kitori iirc i think it is yeah, reverse engineering code even clean room isnt really co...

ChickenSystems•2/22/22, 10:56 PM

Clean room is explicitly legal in most places. ReactOS and Wine would have been squashed by Microsoft had any part of their operations been illegal. :)

Lyris the Kitori•2/22/22, 10:57 PM

keyword most

Lyris the Kitori•2/22/22, 10:57 PM

i meant some countries

Lyris the Kitori•2/22/22, 10:57 PM

as said in my first message

ChickenSystems•2/22/22, 11:01 PM

I guess some random country might present a legal issue.

ChickenSystems•2/22/22, 11:01 PM

But we are all likely outside their jurisdiction. :))

ChickenSystems•2/22/22, 11:02 PM

So long as you do not distribute their code in any form, only send patches or use clean room documentation you are pretty much clear. Your own patches are your own IP.