psiconv possible legal issues

[Linus Walleij]

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