Yep absolutely. What I wrote for someone else who had the same thought:
> Totally, putting some small patches into the binary would definitely work in the case of just wanting to get rid of the licence validation. The goal of my project, though, was to get to a state where the software could be used in its original unmodified state, with a "real" licence. Just felt more authentic! So the process over the 3 parts of the blog series is guided by that final destination.
> Totally, putting some small patches into the binary would definitely work in the case of just wanting to get rid of the licence validation. The goal of my project, though, was to get to a state where the software could be used in its original unmodified state, with a "real" licence. Just felt more authentic! So the process over the 3 parts of the blog series is guided by that final destination.