> And be patent trolled out of existence if you ever used it.
No, reverse engineering is legal, and projects like Samba or my company full reversing (4 products) of closed source Microsoft projects hasn't be sued. More on that: we have been contacted by Microsoft if we need something special that they can test for compliant on newer operating systems.
Try the same web scraping the google search engine (something more "benign" and they will show you a page saying that you can't automate the search process.
No, reverse engineering is legal, and projects like Samba or my company full reversing (4 products) of closed source Microsoft projects hasn't be sued. More on that: we have been contacted by Microsoft if we need something special that they can test for compliant on newer operating systems.
Try the same web scraping the google search engine (something more "benign" and they will show you a page saying that you can't automate the search process.