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Originally Posted by balok
Hey, don't be a jerk. You're just nitpicking. Or is this a power trip? Maybe it's a way to get back at Cacapee for not releasing his code.
Furthermore, if you want to get legal on us, let me point out that legally speaking, it's not your prerogative to enforce a third party's rights (ie. the author of Poppler), and I very much doubt that Mobileread could be held liable just for hosting software that presumedly doesn't respect a third party's licence.
Does the expression "to be more catholic than the pope" exist in English? If not, it seems self-explanatory.
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GPL was created to make programs better by enabling people to be able to enhance them. Releasing a program that solves some problem and not releasing the source code hinder the development of good programs since the binary programs kind of works. And using GPL:ed code and not releasing the source code is not in the spirit of GPL and the goal of enhancing programs.
So it is often better that a program without source code disappear because it will stimulate a better GPL:ed program to be developed.