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Originally Posted by Nate the great
A hot new ebook converter popped up just over a month ago, and it turns out there's a problem with it.
Hamstersoft was hailed by all the tech blogs as this great new way to covert ebooks from one format to another. It had a simple interface, foolproof operation, and a lot of enthusiastic users.
Unfortunately, the Hamstersoft Ebook Converter is also a pretty egregious example of copyright infringement. According to John Schember (a calibre contributor) the Hamstersoft Ebook Converter uses large chunks of code from the calibre ebook library app and doesn't comply with certain GPL (GNU General Public License) conditions.
You can find the full details over on John Schember's blog. It's technically complicated and quite long. You can also find a basic summary here. |
Thanks for this information. I support Calibre (since Calibre supports me!). I have passed this information (along with the link to John's blog) to everyone I know who is into ebook converting.
It's just sad. A group came together to make money off of the hard work of a lot of different developers backs. The entire company seems just to make GUIs and nothing else. Of course they could make a great looking wrapper...someone else did all the hard work!