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Old 06-09-2011, 01:56 PM   #45
Starson17
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It's written to be able to stand in a court of law.
And it's written to keep the software perpetually free of restrictions so that a wonderful program like calibre can be written, made available to all the end users and grow into the future. Each current developer agrees to pass forward his contribution to future developers, and it's that GPL-protected process that makes open source work so well.

Projects like calibre flourish because the developers are willing to contribute their time and effort. Calibre is only possible because of the long string of earlier developers that made their contributions to various packages that were later incorporated into calibre.

I suppose it's all just a philosophy thing, but if so, IMHO, it's a powerful philosophy.
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