[ale] [WAY OT]Reverse Engineering MS Visual Basic Applications

[jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu (Jonathan Glass)]

A friend of mine had some custom software written by a small consulting
firm.  The firm has since fallen on hard times, split up, and told him
he's out of luck.  They did (supposedly) provide him with a document
spelling out his legal right to reverse engineer the software.  Anyone
know how I should proceed here?  Is this legal, does anyone on this list
know how to do or contract for this type of work?

TIA
-- 
Jonathan Glass