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Re: psiconv possible legal issues



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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