i really feel like youre misinterpreting what happened here. i dont mean to be a dick or offend, but i remember reading in one of your posts that english is not your primary language... Is it possible youre misunderstanding what OP claims to have done?
Because this comment seems to be a gross overreaction to the situation actually described.
Really? Wow! This is called reverse engineering something. It is a local database file and not stored on any server. Plus my intent was to solve a problem and not make money. It just turned out that I made good money for my innovation.
The suing part I was worried about was the look and feel which companies go overboard on and is not illegal but can cause issues. So I had a concern. It wasn't because I was able to read the data file.
today, you could probably be civilly liable for violating the software license, because its standard language to prohibit reverse engineering of any kind.
in 1980 who the hell knows, im not even sure "reverse engineer" was a phrase then.