"you possibly sign away your rights to reverse-engineer any of Google's code, ever."
NOT
Read it again. The restrictions only apply to confidential stuff that Google discloses to you once you've signed. AND there is a specific exemption for ANYTHING that was already publicly available when Google disclosed it to you, OR that becomes publicly available (through no fault of yours) after Google discloses it to you.
Doh!
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"you possibly sign away your rights to reverse-engineer any of Google's code, ever." NOT Read it again. The restrictions only apply to confidential stuff that Google discloses to you once you've signed. AND there is a specific exemption for ANYTHING that was already publicly available when Google disclosed it to you, OR that becomes publicly available (through no fault of yours) after Google discloses it to you. Doh!