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I don't know anything about Polish law either, but in the US, copyright law (DMCA in particular) makes it illegal to modify the software in a device you own, if it requires circumventing protection code or devices. Which it probably would in this case.

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According to the Polish copyright law, by default one can reverse engineer and modify licensed software without author's permission to ensure interoperability with other software and for fixing bugs. Such right can be explicitly denied by the copyright owner, though.

But could the authors be attacked for treason, destruction of property, or a simili-Patriot Act? Besides, have we learnt something about any public software being required to be delivered as open-source?

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