Please, let me clear up some of the confusion. Diesel eBooks provides free downloads of public domain titles as a service. Since there's no profit involved, there is no problem. Same for free.eliterature (when they still had a site up) as their charge was to recoup the cost of making the CD. Just to be sure, I checked with Greg Newby, Dir and CEO of Project Gutenburg, and he assured me there were no issues with Diesel eBooks.
Interesting questions, though.
Scott Redford