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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
IMO this issue is a red herring.
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I completely agree. There's no chance that the GPL would be asserted against the output of calibre simply because calibre is itself GPL. That's not to say that it's impossible to get the output to be GPL - just write a recipe that copies all the calibre GPL code to an e-book, but in that case, the output would be GPL because the input was GPL.
Moreover, it's not possible even for Kovid to add an "ebook exemption" to strip the GPL protection from such an ebook.
IMO, 1) the likelihood of the GPL being asserted by the FSF against output produced by calibre is indistinguishable from zero, and ) even if it was asserted, the possibility that a court would agree the GPL applies is even closer to zero.
If you worry about such things, you should also start worrying that you will win the lottery and immediately be stuck by a meteorite.
