The legal status of reverse engineering of computer software

Annals of Software Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 337-351

  Cifuentes, Cristina ^a   Fitzgerald, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Software Engineering Australia   (Australia)

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EID: 0034385012     PISSN: 10227091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018993212326     Document Type: Article

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