disassembling an .so file

Seb

I have neither the time,energy or resources to become involved in a dispute with some company over a violation of the GPL license. I actually believe they have much bigger problems as they also package a stripped down version of the ubuntu distro with their product. The company is a leading seller of controllers for DIY plasma and router tables. If you want more details please PM me.

John

Disassembly will not magically give you source code.

Ozzyrob

Yes, I know that. Prior to this I wasn't sure whether the .so component files where actually true object files or some hybrid file that had all of the debugging and manpages data combined with tokenized source code. Now I know, thank you.

John

An .so (shared library) file is equivalent to M$ .dll .

I don't see a reason why a manpage would be included in a shared library, depending on how the library had been built and on whether the library had been stripped or not would determine whether any debugging info had been included.