On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 06:27:29PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > > - the Project gutenberg texts (not that their license is currently free) > Their license is moot in sane countries -- the texts are in the public > domain. Er, modulo the small percentage of life+50 texts. And modulo > Australia, which seems to have rejected Feist, although the case is on > appeal to the Supreme Court there. Public domain means that anyone is free to use the material for any purpose whatsoever, *including* creating derived works which would themselves be subject to copyright. AFAIK, this would include editorializing or annotating the texts. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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