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*No Reverse Engineering, Decompilation, Disassembly, or Circumvention.* You may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Kindle or the Software, whether in whole or in part, create any derivative works from or of the Software, or bypass, modify, defeat, or tamper with or circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Kindle or Software or any mechanisms operatively linked to the Software, for example, by augmenting or substituting any digital rights management functionality of the Kindle or Software.
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.. and that Amazon are perfectly within their rights to cut you off if you break your side of the agreement:
I'm given to understand the operating system that the Kindle uses is Linux.
Any one who uses Linux is bound by the GNU licence and the relevant part of the GNU license follows
Free software
The GNU project uses software that is free for users to copy, edit, and distribute. It is free in the sense that users can change the software to fit individual needs. The way programmers obtain the free software depends on where they get it. The software could be provided to the programmer from friends or over the internet, or the company a programmer works for may purchase the software. Proceeds from purchases support the GNU project. GNU has four kinds of freedom for the software:
* Freedom to run the program
* Freedom to access the code
* Freedom to redistribute the program to anyone
* Freedom to improve the software[9]
I suggest that from your quote of the Kindle EULA that it is contravention of the Linux GNU.
Unless I get some kind of explanation as to why I can't use the software on the Kindle, how I see fit, as the GNU license says I should be able to, I shall be taking this further and be warned I know my way around the 'Net.
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