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kovidgoyal · 08-13-2011, 05:59 PM

Hi all,

Some of you may recall that a couple of months ago a company named Hamster released an ebook converter. This was a closed source product that used calibre under the hood to do the conversion.

calibre is licensed under the GNU GPLv3, which means that if you use it in your product you must open source your product. We informed Hamster of the violation, and they promised to fix it, but now, more than a month later, they still haven't.

Read more about the situation: http://john.nachtimwald.com/2011/08/...ng-ripped-off/

On a personal note: What a bunch of parasites!

08-13-2011, 05:59 PM	#1
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,377 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The ongoing saga of Hamster e-book converter Hi all, Some of you may recall that a couple of months ago a company named Hamster released an ebook converter. This was a closed source product that used calibre under the hood to do the conversion. calibre is licensed under the GNU GPLv3, which means that if you use it in your product you must open source your product. We informed Hamster of the violation, and they promised to fix it, but now, more than a month later, they still haven't. Read more about the situation: http://john.nachtimwald.com/2011/08/...ng-ripped-off/ On a personal note: What a bunch of parasites!