Research On The Legality Of Software Reverse Engineering

Today's society has completely entered the information era,and information industry has become an important pillar industry which concerns people's livelihood.We may have the feeling that hardware?software and intelligent devices begin to play a more and more important role in our daily life.Among that,software is the core of information industry.But this may lead to some unfavorable phenomena,such as software infringement?piracy.This article chiefly analysis the legality of software reverse engineering(SRE).SRE is a very active area of research,it's defined as,for some purpose,a reverse dissect?analysis process to the target code of other people's disclosed software,to get the software's design element,such as principle,thinking,structure,by the means of disassembly and decompilation.The practice of SRE has experienced a long history and is a worldwide phenomenon.We can see that different countries hold different attitudes to SRE,even that one country may possess reverse attitudes in its different periods.For the consideration of SRE's great value and the intense argument it caused,we will have a detailed discussion in this article,especially about its legality.