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Originally Posted by Starson17
Moreover, it's not possible even for Kovid to add an "ebook exemption" to strip the GPL protection from such an ebook.
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It is possible. The GPL does allow for these types of exceptions. GCC and Bison both have them.
To make any license changes Kovid would need to get permission from all copyright holders. This is a limited number of people and if KDE can do it with thousands of people then Kovid can do it with 30ish(?).
Everyone would need to agree to the change but I doubt anyone would object.
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Originally Posted by Starson17
IMO, 1) the likelihood of the GPL being asserted by the FSF against output produced by calibre is indistinguishable from zero
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It is 0. The FSF holds not copyright over any calibre code so they have no rights toward filing a lawsuit or enforcing the terms. Only a copyright holder can assert those rights. The FSF is the author of the GPL but that does not give the FSF rights over projects using the license.
The FSF is the assinged rights holder for most GNU software. So they have right to and do enforce the terms of the GPL over a large amount of GNU software.