psiconv, eligible for extras?

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Nov 30 14:51:58 UTC 2005


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.

~spot
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