Radu Spineanu wrote:
(ii) copy, photocopy, reproduce, translate, reverse engineer, modify, disassemble, or de-compile in whole or in part any Battle.net software;
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I am not a legal guru, but this seems to prohibit distribution of the support files in non-free.
Yep. Reverse engineering clauses are void in Europe, but as you said upstream took them verbatim, so this is explicitly prohibited by Blizzard. So the software is hopefully free, and one component of it could be used without infringing ToS (Westwood Online). The other, more used component could only be used in conjunction with illegal material at own risk. At least we should inform our users that those files are not obtained by reverse-engineering, but taken verbatim.
I know that Blizzard wants to protect itself from other Battle.Net servers (because that would circumvent the copy-protection through the serial number). So the risk's there. Even an automatic download like with msttcorefonts might not be ok in this case, at least IMHO and IANAL.
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