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luka6000 · 01-22-2012, 04:18 PM

Hello developers,

I'd like to share with you my thoughts about this new feature of last 0.8.36 calibre version:
"When automatically deleting news older than x days, from the calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News by the user."

With this version, calibre is not showing news author correctly as set by recipe - it just uses 'calibre' within library although epub files have right metadata.

I'd like to convince you, that this new feature is just wrong. First of all, calibre is not and can not be named as author of content it creates using recipes. I understand that if recipe author doesn't bother to set content author correctly, calibre must set something but why not use 'unknown' instead? Please remember, that this content is probably copyrighted and I'm not talking about money involved but just plain simple GNU GPL rule of keeping the original author always in place. You want your rights to be respected, please respect rights of other authors.

So, what to do to make is better and right? Just use Producer (in epub) or Contributor (in opf) fields instead Author. Put something like 'calibre news downloader' there and it will be just so true. It will also make it differentiate from standard calibre producer field so it would be very easy to recognize old news.

Please, give this feature a second thought. Thanks.

01-22-2012, 04:18 PM	#1
luka6000 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Nook ST	0.8.36 deleting news Hello developers, I'd like to share with you my thoughts about this new feature of last 0.8.36 calibre version: "When automatically deleting news older than x days, from the calibre library, only delete the book if it both has the tag News and the author calibre. This prevents accidental deletion of books tagged with News by the user." With this version, calibre is not showing news author correctly as set by recipe - it just uses 'calibre' within library although epub files have right metadata. I'd like to convince you, that this new feature is just wrong. First of all, calibre is not and can not be named as author of content it creates using recipes. I understand that if recipe author doesn't bother to set content author correctly, calibre must set something but why not use 'unknown' instead? Please remember, that this content is probably copyrighted and I'm not talking about money involved but just plain simple GNU GPL rule of keeping the original author always in place. You want your rights to be respected, please respect rights of other authors. So, what to do to make is better and right? Just use Producer (in epub) or Contributor (in opf) fields instead Author. Put something like 'calibre news downloader' there and it will be just so true. It will also make it differentiate from standard calibre producer field so it would be very easy to recognize old news. Please, give this feature a second thought. Thanks.