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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@Ankh: Glad to hear it. I just want this to proceed in steps. Lets first all agree that it is wrong. Once we do that, we can move on to discussing what/if anything should be done about it.
The reason I do this is that the two issues are separate and if they get conflated then you have positions hardening about the first issue because people disagree about the second.
So please, I promise we can have the discussion about what should be done after we are all agreed that duplicating a PD text and then selling it without informing the customers that it is a duplicate is wrong.
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I'm afraid that I can't agree that this is wrong, Kovid. Imposing restrictions - any restrictions at all - on what can be done with material that's in the public domain is a perversion of the very idea of the public domain.