Since Oracle's licensing agreement includes the provision that customers "may not reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Programs," the ...

And reverse engineering can shorten development cycles of ontology and various database models. On this basis, we propose formal definition of FOOD models and fuzzy OWL 2 ontologies.

Oracle's CSO wrote that a lot of security scanning tools are serving up "a pile of steaming … FUD," and warns not to reverse engineer Oracle's code.

The post set off an immediate firestorm in the security industry, which—aside from Oracle—has increasingly adopted a friendly attitude toward reverse engineers and benign hackers.