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The prohibition covers three distinct technical methods of accessing underlying code or structure, broadly blocking users from attempting to understand or reconstruct the End User Services at a technical level.
Users are prohibited from using any technical method—decompilation, source code extraction, or reverse engineering—to examine the underlying code or structure of the End User Services.
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Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using an NVIDIA proprietary software development kit (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA toolkit), including their development tools and compilers.
You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
You agree that Promotional Codes: (a) must be used in a lawful manner; (b) must be used for the intended audience and purpose; (c) may not be duplicated, sold or transferred in any manner...
"Decompile, extract source code, or reverse engineer the End User ServicesExcerpt from Stripe's Acceptable Use Policy
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The prohibition covers three distinct technical methods of accessing underlying code or structure, broadly blocking users from attempting to understand or reconstruct the End User Services at a technical level.
Users are prohibited from using any technical method—decompilation, source code extraction, or reverse engineering—to examine the underlying code or structure of the End User Services.
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