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Originally Posted by dmapr
Got it. Asked, will let you know if he says anything.
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Waiting impatiently. Thank you
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Originally Posted by tshering
These two "feature proposals" seem dangerous to me. If Metazoa provides those features, and I don't doubt that he is able to do this, Kobo might be forced to take counter measures. As a result of this, even legally justifiable modifications might become harder to achieve.
So please, if you ask for possibly illegal stuff, don't do it openly.
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Sorry I wasn't clear enough (english isnt my native language so I always tends to be quick and not precise)
By unlocking the dictionary feature, I meant to unlock 'The languages' themselves. Not the copyrighted dictionary itself.
I don't see anything 'illegal' here.
Thus, in the firmware, it is the language that is locked, not the dictionary itself.
For instance, if you replace like I did the french dictionary by a custom one and totally free of rights (in my case, I've installed the "Dictionnaire Français (1863) Émile Littré" source and download:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...07#post2580807), the feature will still locked (edit
for french language...
Now if people will use the official dictionary...
I think Kobo do what they want with their firmwares, as it is up to us to modify it for our own taste. I bought the device, I'm not renting it.
If they eventually decide to lock everything in future, I'm fine with that, I 'll just switch to a custom application, like the Koreader (which is planed anyway, not sure what I am waiting for, when I see how buggy, poor and restricted the official firmwares and apps are since months now. each new firmware seems worse than the previous one...)
But It seems a large debate, not sure its the right topic for this :s
Just wanted to clarify about my request.