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  1. Marco Barzanti
    Marco Barzanti
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Saturday, 25 April 2020 10:44 AM UTC

Hi,

I need to execute a Static Analysis of several PowerScript/DataWindow apps, so I need to export source code in readable ASCII format.

For the fact I'm extracting and analyzing source code,

do I have to pay royalties to Appeon or SAP?

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
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  1. Saturday, 25 April 2020 16:45 PM UTC
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Not sure I'm understanding your question correctly.  Assuming that you already have the source code in ASCII text, then you would not need to use the PowerBuilder tool itself and therefore nothing to buy from Appeon.  

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Marco Barzanti
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  1. Sunday, 26 April 2020 20:30 PM UTC
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Hi Michael,

I'm just a security auditor, authorized from the source code owner, to execute a Static Analysis over a number of Powerbuilder applications.

The owner itself, having a regular PowerBuilder Desktop license, asks me to check if exporting code to ascii may violate some copyright.

That's all.

Thank you for your kindly responses.

Regards

Marco Barzanti 

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Roland Smith
  1. Roland Smith
  2. Monday, 27 April 2020 01:20 AM UTC
The easiest way for the source code owner to extract code to ascii text files is by using the PBNative source control that comes with PowerBuilder. They just need to do an 'Add to Source Control' and PowerBuilder will extract all the objects.
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Michael Kramer
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  1. Sunday, 26 April 2020 14:33 PM UTC
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Hi Marco,
Seek legal advise before exposing source code - even if you wrote it yourself.

All kinds of legal or business risks line of to "attack" you when you deliver someone else your complete product.
And remember to protect that source code from unwanted reading, copying, selling, etc.

You may have a straightforward case from legal standpoint => I'm happy for you!
But I have seen messy legal situations arising from someone exposing source code license protected by third party.

I have seen business closing because somebody copied their software and released competing product.
And I have seen very successful attacks from attacking having undesired access to source code.
Even open-source software is most often license protected.

HTH /Michael

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Marco Barzanti
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  1. Saturday, 25 April 2020 18:18 PM UTC
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I don't know if I'm authorized to extract source code in cleartext, without violating your contract. Normally, PowerBuilder stores source code in binary mode inside pbl files. Does code extract violate any copyright? 

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Saturday, 25 April 2020 19:00 PM UTC
Extracting source code of an application not PowerBuilder tool itself will not violate the Appeon license agreement. But You would need to check with whoever wrote the source code of the application if the give you permission to extract the code they wrote.
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