[parasight]

Is this a real judicial concern or just a philosophical question? I read code on a daily basis with all kinds of different licenses and I also contribute to open and closed source on a daily. Should I go make an appointment with my lawyer tomorrow?

[pavanky]

Some companies have license agreements that forbid reverse engineering their software if you have used it / worked on it. It may be even worse if you have actually looked at the source code of the closed source alternatives.

INAL, But if you are contributing to projects on tangential areas you should be OK.