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Re: CAUTION ! We are all in big danger !
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botman
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Default Re: CAUTION ! We are all in big danger ! - 30-04-2004

"I'm also not sure whether debug_engine in HPB_bot is reverse engineering...

if so, we're all in another big danger."


I specifically ask Yahn Bernier at Valve about this when I first started working on the HPB bot.

What he said was as long as I wasn't disassembling the executables (.exe, .dll, etc.), what I was doing wasn't reverse engineering the game.

The engine API interface was clearly documented in the SDK source code. The messages being sent back and forth between the engine and the MOD were in "clear view" (i.e. they weren't encrypted or secured in any way), and I wasn't modifying the engine code or the MOD code in any way, so everything that I was doing was fine as far as Valve was concerned.

As for the 1 year limit on the license, that's only in there to prevent you from having a permanent license which couldn't be revoved. At the end of one year, the license automatically renews itself unless Valve states that your license is no longer valid (even though that's not spelled out explicitly in the EULA).

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