Although I see your reasoning behind the "if it's OK to rip MP3s then it must be OK to rip Garmin maps" thinking, I'm not sure that the two can be considered the same thing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the idea of being able to use converted Garmin maps in our software. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate because I want to see the GPSapp succeed above-board. Without any... shall we say... "Imperial entanglements".