Python secure?

[Pierre Hanser]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2004-08-16, Roger Binns <rogerb at rogerbinns.com> wrote:
> 
>>Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>I don't see how decompiling is a copyright violation.  If I buy
>>>a copy of a book, I'm pretty sure I can translate it into
>>>another language if I want to form my own use.
>>
>>They need to use what they decompile for it to be a copyright
>>violation.
> 
> 
> IANAL, but it looks like under Title 17, the act of creating a
> derived work is an infringement.  It doesn't say the derived
> work has to be used and/or distributed for it to be an
> infringement.
> 

some countries have such stupid regulations...