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Old 07-07-2011, 03:09 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Given that it is using calibre and is being distributed in binary form without source code and with a license incompatible with the GNU GPL v3 (calibre's license) it is illegal.

Besides being utterly immoral in that it uses calibre and does not acknowledge that fact anywhere in its user interface.
kovid, is there anything you can do about that? calibre is such a fantastic tool it seems so wrong that some idiot can basically steal it. I'm not sure what the ethics are surrounding open source software, but without even an acknowledgement....that sucks. Keep up the good work with calibre
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