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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Allowed reverse engineering methods
From:       Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-30 21:29:15
Message-ID: AANLkTil9NTFY6dLiQ0PUcI8BpW-vxD1fQ5F0W8W5_CDW () mail ! gmail ! com
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>> But which methods are allowed? I assume that "obvious"
>> methods (reading header files, registry dumps, etc.) are
>> acceptable, but can I e.g. analyze .pdb symbol files
>> (availble in e.g. Microsoft's DirectX SDK)?
>>
>>
>
> You can do the above as long as they are readily available.   The .pdb files
> are accessible to all, then you can use them.  If you have to copy them from
> a running Windows installation, they are not.
>

.pdb files should not be used. For instance they show internal data
structures, internal functions and much more. Stay away from them.

Roderick



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