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Old 12-02-2010, 12:23 PM   #19
DMSmillie
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The real issue for me isn't so much that any of these vendors are selling PD books. It's that somebody has taken somebody else's work and sold it.

I haven't read PD license in a while but I'm pretty sure this is against the license, if so then this behavior would not be legal.

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As far as I know, there's no such thing as a public domain licence. If something is in the public domain, it is completely unlicenced, and available for anyone to do as they wish with it (short of claiming that they wrote the original, of course).

There's nothing illegal that I'm aware of, in taking a work that is in the public domain, repackaging it, and selling it. Unprincipled, perhaps, if no work has gone into creating the new edition and there's no added value compared to whatever free versions are available, but not illegal.

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