> To decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce our Services to human-readable form, except when these restrictions are prohibited by applicable law.
Luckily, it doesn't seem like any service was reverse-engineered or decompiled here, only a software that lived on the authors disk.
Thanks for the additional context, I'm not a user of CC anymore, and don't read legal documents for fun. Seems I made the right choice in the first place :)
Not "service" in human speech. Service, in bullshit legalese. They define their software as
> along with any associated apps, software, and websites (together, our “Services”)
As far as I understand, these terms actually hold up in court, too. Which is complete fucking nonsense that, I think, could only be the result of a technologically illiterate class making the decisions. Being penalised for trying to understand what software is doing on your machine is so wholly unreasonable that it should not be a valid contractual term.
Luckily, it doesn't seem like any service was reverse-engineered or decompiled here, only a software that lived on the authors disk.