Hi, I am a software developer based in the UK that has been asked about producing a piece of software that outputs data from the files in ABI sequencers in a more human readable format. I hope the org.biojava.bio.program.abi package will let me do this, but I have some concerns about the legal implications of using and contributing to this package.
Does anyone know what the legal position is with regards reverse engineering the Applied Biosystems file format (and any other file formats come to that matter)? I would imagine this file format is the property of Applied Biosystems and they would not like me producing applications that read from it unless I provide them with a sizable licence fee (although I guess I am not reverse engineering it if I just use the above package, just if I contribute to it?). Many thanks in advance for your help, Rich ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
