# Legal or not?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/legal-or-not/287491>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 2, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/legal-or-not/287491 "2009-05-02T00:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jdl](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jdl)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/legal-or-not/287491/1 "2009-05-02T00:39:01Z")

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if you use a swf decompiler to find the actionscript behind a swf and want to use it, is  
it legal? I tried contacting the author but no contact anywhere.