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by KaiserPro 941 days ago
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/50B

Says that its totally not legal to distribute decompiled code, or indeed:

> uses the information to create a program which is substantially similar in its expression to the program decompiled or to do any act restricted by copyright.

If it was legal, there would be loads of decompiled binaries floating around for windows, Adobe, autodesk and any number of other expensive bits of software.