The program code can be different in terms of privacy - many developers do not publish it in the public domain and the terms of the license agreement impose restrictions on users related to its use and viewing. There are also open source programs that can be viewed, edited, and so on.
Necessary
program for opening source code
Instructions
Step 1
Make sure the source code of the software you want to view is open source. To do this, go to the official website of the software developer and view the license type. If the source code of the program is closed, you cannot view it. This is inconvenient, but with such a system, copies of a program containing Trojans and other malicious programs are quite rare. This is the main disadvantage of free software.
Step 2
If you have free software, find in the program menu "Source Code", if such an item is provided by the developer, which is extremely rare. To view it in other cases, use an assembler or other third-party software.
Step 3
Often, to open the source, you need to know which programming language the creators of the program used during development, which is often very difficult to determine. Here you can install on your computer a set of different programs for opening sources written in different languages.
Step 4
When using free software, if you have the opportunity, review the source code before the installation process, especially if the program was downloaded from an unofficial source. This will help protect your computer from malware that is installed along with the main one.
Step 5
Also, do not resort to various methods of making changes to the closed source code of the program, often in such cases there is a certain liability for violation of the rules of the license agreement between the user and the developer. Moreover, do not post edited programs of this kind on the Internet.
