psiconv, eligible for extras?

[Hans de Goede]

Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 22:28 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> See:
>> http://software.frodo.looijaard.name/psiconv/
>>
>> I would like to package this since both abiword and gnumeric can use it 
>> to gain Psion document import capabilities.
> 
> Looks ok to me at first glance (DMCA compliant reverse engineering for
> interoperability, no patents on the file format), but it should probably
> go for legal review.
> 

Hmm,

I'm getting mixed response on this:

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
 > +1
 >
 > Unless there are clear patent issues, I see no problem with this.
 >
 > --g

So what shall it be can I proceed or should I wait for legal review?

Thanks & Regards,

Hans