Re: psiconv possible legal issues

[Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk redhat com>]

+1

Unless there are clear patent issues, I see no problem with this.

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On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Linus Walleij wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> > I'm thinking about packaging psiconv, this is a conversion utility for
> > Psion handheld document formats. The problem is that it might have legal
> > issues because it is based on reverse engineering of the document format.
> 
> Reverse engineering for interoperability is legal in all countries of the 
> civilized world, the only problem arise when there are patents involved 
> and I hardly believe that Psions document format is so ingenious that it 
> is patented.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering
> 
> Linus
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