> It's not "derived" work in usual sense, it's "reverse-engineered" and this wording > can be important, but I argue it would be a "remake" with its own copyright just like > if you get a camera and film Star Wars remake with your friends as actors, that's > completely different than if you took camera and film the actual movie in theater.
Sure it's derived. If I translate "The Shining" into Spanish, it's still Stephen King's copyrighted work. That's all a static recompiler does: translate code into another language.