Thread: Kobo should purchase Calibre
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Old 11-09-2014, 11:04 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by darryl View Post
Don't lose any sleep over it. Calibre uses the GPL. Even if future versions were to somehow become closed source, the existing code remains open source and available to the community. Having said that, it would indeed be a tragedy to lose the developers to Kobo or anyone else. Kovid and the others working on Calibre and on Calibre Companion have done the whole community an enormous favour with this software.
Well said. Thank you! Calibre is an amazing piece of software and all the developers are equally amazing and helpful. Would never want to lose any of them.
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