What is the ruling on disposing of and developing a program whose source code has been confiscated and its developer shut down for political reasons? Is it permissible to simulate its mechanism of action to create a new program to solve customer problems?

If the financial right to the program is established, it is a right for all shareholders in the company, and it is not permissible for some of them to monopolize it. The suspicion regarding the money of one of the funders does not affect this ruling. It is not permissible to infringe upon the right of any shareholder; therefore, it is not permissible to dispose of the program without the permission of the other shareholders. As for producing a program that imitates it, there is no religious impediment to it, as long as it does not bear the same name as the first program.