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Old 05-11-2011, 07:23 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by adun
Except, calibre intentionally writes to the output code its foot print
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Originally Posted by http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutput
substantial parts of the output are copied (more or less) from text in your program
A footprint is in no way substantial.

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Originally Posted by adun
MS Word does pretty much the same and, if you read the MS Office licence, it says essentially (among other things) that due to this fact, each and every doc ever created with MS Word belongs to MS.
Adding terms of use though an end license user agreement (EULA) is different from copyright extending to the output of an application. Microsoft's term are due to the contract law created between you and Microsoft by agreeing to the EULA.
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