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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It would be good if this can be confirmed; on most forums the lack off Mobi-DRM on ADE devices is blamed on big, evil Amazon. The assumption being that if Evil Amazon relented peace would break out the world over.
If true it might help explain why there are no ADE + eReader dual-DRM gadgets out there.
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It is the Mobi license terms that prevent this, not the RMSDK license terms. The closest restriction in the RMSDK License terms, is that you can't modify the RMSDK itself to add a DRM scheme that isn't already in there. For example, adding in a new PDF/EPUB DRM scheme by just adding in the DRM handling into the RMSDK, while technically possible, would not be legally permitted. However adding in a new SDK that renders the format (such as say eReader or BBeB) is allowed.
As proof beside my raw word, you can see that other DRM schemes exist quite nicely (contractually) beside the RMSDK:
- The Sony Reader supports the LRX format (DRM'd BBeB) and has for quite some time.
- As Harry noted, the Nook has eReader support (which does not come from the RMSDK).
To my knowledge the FBReader team has yet to contact us about being an RMSDK customer (but I'm not on the sales end, so I don't know for sure), but being Open Source (as Wallcraft noted) would be another violation of the license that the RMSDK is issued under.