The agreement prohibits users from circumventing technical limitations of the End User Services, enabling disabled or prohibited functionality, and decompiling, extracting source code from, or reverse engineering the services.
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This provision establishes standard software license restrictions on reverse engineering and technical circumvention, which are common in software and platform agreements and may interact with statutory exceptions available under applicable copyright law in certain jurisdictions.
Interpretive note: Statutory exceptions to reverse engineering restrictions under EU Software Directive and UK copyright law may limit the enforceability of this prohibition for interoperability or security research purposes in those jurisdictions.
Under this clause, users may not attempt to access source code, circumvent technical restrictions, or enable functionality that Stripe has disabled within the End User Services. Statutory exceptions to reverse engineering restrictions may apply in certain jurisdictions, including the EU and UK, for purposes of interoperability.
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This provision establishes standard software license restrictions on reverse engineering and technical circumvention, which are common in software and platform agreements and may interact with statutory exceptions available under applicable copyright law in certain jurisdictions.
Under this clause, users may not attempt to access source code, circumvent technical restrictions, or enable functionality that Stripe has disabled within the End User Services. Statutory exceptions to reverse engineering restrictions may apply in certain jurisdictions, including the EU and UK, for purposes of interoperability.
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