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Originally Posted by w_mark
Regardless of whether the informaiton is in the source code or not, the fact you do NOT state you are doing this in the installation of Calibre (or, apart from that stat page) shows that you are prepared to be untruthful in your implementation.
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Use the Mac version as there is no disclosure for you to fret over because there is no installer.
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Originally Posted by w_mark
As others here have alluded to, if this were a commercial company people would be all over you like a rash for doing this (collecting data without informing your 'customers) - so why are you any different? Just because you hide behind 'open source' does not give you any protection whatsoever.
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Because no one here feels there is anything illegal, nefarious, or wrong with the data collection or disclosure.
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Originally Posted by w_mark
Final point to those saying 'read the source' - he is not distributing source code, he is distributing a compiled and working program...
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You do realize that having the source code you can build it yourself and not use the distributed binaries?
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once it has bene compiled you have absolutely no idea what changes or additional code he has made to the program over and above the published source code.
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Decompilation, packet sniffing.
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Which is why, with no straight answer coming back, the question is still 'what else is Calibre collecting?'
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I don't now how to give a more straight forward answer than, again:
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Originally Posted by http://status.calibre-ebook.com/
Only this ID and the IP address of the computer is stored, no other identifying information is collected.
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