You should probably brace yourself for a C&D and/or DMCA takedown request from Apple, regardless of the actual legality of what you're doing. They won't like this.
But even then they weren't claiming it was reverse engineered material, but instead material ripped directly from Apple's copyrighted and confidential docs. I think both Apple and Github understand the boundaries of the DMCA pretty well. According to Github they haven't attempted to take down any of the following:
piemessage proxies through your own Mac though -- not some sketchy server in China. I'd imagine Apple shut down the one you linked to protect their users.
Unless it starts cocking up Apple's own systems - overloading servers, or generating significant numbers of support queries, for example I doubt they will have any problem at all
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You should probably brace yourself for a C&D and/or DMCA takedown request from Apple, regardless of the actual legality of what you're doing. They won't like this.
I went through Apple's DMCA requests sent to Github and the only one that is remotely similar is this:
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-11-04-Apple....
But even then they weren't claiming it was reverse engineered material, but instead material ripped directly from Apple's copyrighted and confidential docs. I think both Apple and Github understand the boundaries of the DMCA pretty well. According to Github they haven't attempted to take down any of the following:
https://github.com/nygard/class-dump
https://github.com/nst/iOS-Runtime-Headers
https://github.com/brutella/hc
https://github.com/KhaosT/HAP-NodeJS
https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge
https://github.com/lisimia/piMessage
https://github.com/stefanesser/dumpdecrypted
https://github.com/comex/imaon2
… etc
It is relieving to see that this information is available to the general public. Chilling effects and whatnot.
Yes, I remember having seen something very similar before several years ago that was promptly forced to shut down by Apple. I believe this was it:
http://techland.time.com/2013/09/24/an-imessage-app-is-now-a...
piemessage proxies through your own Mac though -- not some sketchy server in China. I'd imagine Apple shut down the one you linked to protect their users.
that was promptly forced to shut down by Apple
I think we'd need a citation for that – AFAIK that app was pulled because of honking great security problems.
Unless it starts cocking up Apple's own systems - overloading servers, or generating significant numbers of support queries, for example I doubt they will have any problem at all