psiconv possible legal issues
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Fri Dec 2 17:00:48 UTC 2005
+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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