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Old 11-09-2014, 10:24 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Calibre is GPL, nothing (as far as I know) prevents Kobo from copying it, changing the name to "Kalibre" if they wish, distributing it with their readers (or selling it) and advertising it, as long as they provide access to the source code.
They'd also have to give attribution.

And I doubt they want to release the source code for any derivative works, which would limit them to redistribution of calibre which would be kind of useless.
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