[pp.int.general] copyright vs. "droit d'auteur"

[Valentin Villenave]

2009/1/10 Richard M Stallman <rms at gnu.org>:
> It may still have a substantial loophole for programs such as the
> Flash player.  Adobe might not care if the Flash player has no
> copyright; Adobe might be happy to release it as a binary which is in
> the public domain immediately but whose source would never become free
> software.

... However, this may imply that any reverse-engineering on such
binaries would be completely legal, wouldn't it?

(I find this discussion very interesting, as we'd all benefit from a
common ground between the GNU project and the Pirate Parties).

Regards,
Valentin