[Ilugc] Immunity from IPR issues for Closed Source software

[Ramanraj K]

  Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> Ramanraj K wrote:
>
>> It is upto the authors of computer programs to enforce their rights.
>> AFAIK, it is difficult to judge copyright infringement from mere 
>> binaries, unless it is a byte for byte binary copy, it which case 
>> there is no need to look into sources to conclude copyright 
>> infringement.  But if the source code has not been disclosed, then it 
>> would have to be summoned, and if there is a failure to produce it, 
>> in most jurisdictions an "adverse inference" would be drawn against 
>> the person so refusing to produce.
>
>
> Simply running "strings" on the binary, or inspecting it with a hex 
> editor, should give some more information.

Probably it would be the work of experts to reason and tell if a work 
has been copied or not.  

I tried editing line 12 of the binary of hello, and running it: