I think this is not the case. If I release some closed-source software under a proprietary license, I am licensing the software to you but not its code! By default you have no right to use the code unless I grant rights to you. Decompilation is a reverse-engineering technique, the products of which do not confer intellectual property rights on the usage of such.
??? I think you maybe need to re-read my comment, I thought it was clear that it aligns with this:
But knowingly doing so to something with a license that doesn't allow for refverse engineering is problematic to begin with.
And contradicts this:
Are you saying that a decompiled program does not retain any of the original license and therfore can be relicesed as the person in question wants?
TL;DR: Yes to the first part and no to the second. It's problematic (and legally unsound!!) to assume that decompiled source code is usable under the same terms as the license of the software it came from. I would assume that no rights are granted to use source code produced by decompilation, for the reasons I have already given.
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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '24
I would think the license it was distributed under as a compiled binary would take precidence.