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Decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to Substack.
you may not: (i) copy, modify or create derivative works based on any Apps; (ii) distribute, transfer, sublicense, lease, lend or rent any Apps to any third party; (iii) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any Apps...
Don't do anything that places an unreasonably large load on our Services' infrastructure, use any robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means to access our Services, try to interfere with the proper working of our Service or attempt to bypass any of our security measures
"Partner will not, and will not authorize or assist any third-party to: (a) attempt to reverse engineer (except as permitted by applicable law), decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code...Excerpt from Plaid's Terms of Use
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The clause states: “Partner will not, and will not authorize or assist any third-party to: (a) attempt to reverse engineer (except as permitted by applicable law), decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code...”
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