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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Also, the only software that currently supports MOBI dictionaries are MobiPocket's own Readers, which are precisely what can't be installed on the device if they have other DRM support.
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iRex is not running the Mobipocket Reader. They are using a Mobipocket API library and writing their own application with it. It should be pretty straight forward for them to implement the dictionary functions in the Mobi library without implementing the DRM functions, if they chose to.
As far as what can and can't be installed on the device according to the Mobipocket license, I don't think anybody really knows that. As far as I'm aware nobody other than a device manufacturer has ever seen that license, and the manufacturers are not allowed to talk about it. Does the exclusive license apply to the use of any Mobipocket software, or just to the Mobipocket DRM scheme? I'm pretty sure I'd read that it's possible to support the MOBI format without supporting MOBI DRM (don't other devices do that?).
You do have a point about the dictionaries themselves being DRM'd. You'd have to use one that isn't.
At this point though, I think we're all just guessing. However, I would be very surprised if they removed dictionary support when they implemented Adobe DRM. That would be a significant feature loss. I would assume they have some plan for keeping that functionality in place.