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I had an interesting thing happen to me once. I had a client for whom I was doing a bunch of work on and off line.
I told them I would maintain rights to all the source files (.psd, .fla, .eps etc.) They didn't really understand what that meant, until they decided they wanted another designer to do work on their site for them. I told them the source files were mine and that I would gladly maintain their site for a fee. The new designer then took a program like swfdecompiler and reverse engineered my .swf file.
I didn't persue it, cause I don't even know if that would be considered a violation of the terms, and also cause I'm a bit lazy and didn't mind all that much anyway.
But I still wonder if it's legal/acceptable for them to reverse engineer your .swf's unless you specifically state that they cant, even if you declare you own the source files.