People sometimes get confued about the formats.
Icon packaeges -- .IP files are not protected. They are just zip files renamed.
Inside though is another file -- .iptheme. That is...was..a text file. But unscrupulous companies have been trying to make a fast buck off our work so we're encrypting this file so that only IconPackager can apply them.
It will still work on existing .iptheme files of course. But eventually they'll migrate to this format, especially since IP 2.5 has a killer feature - icon redundancy elimination. It can shrink the size of a package by multiple MEGAbytes.
